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Mills leaves
legacy of
financial aid
expansion

THE NATIONS OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY PUBLISHED COLLEGE WEEKLY

VOLUME 144, NUMBER 23

BY SARAH DRUMM
ORIENT STAFF

for the change, which has been

discussed since 2006. Dean for
Academic Affairs Cristle Collins
Judd said that the online forms
will be environmentally friendlier,
provide greater flexibility for both
students and professors, and allow
for an even greater degree of anonymity for students.
Last fall, the College piloted the program with seven tenured professors

With only one alcohol-related

transport, one major injury, and a
lot of public urination, the Colleges
150th Ivies was a busy but successful
weekend for the College, according to
Director of Safety and Security Randy
Nichols.
On Friday, students gathered for
an annual party held on the Brunswick Quad.
A female student in the Class of
2017 was transported due to overconsumption of alcohol. Nichols noted
that the transport was not a particularly serious one, with the student only
staying in the hospital for 2-3 hours.
There have been 16 alcohol-related
transports to date this year.
A male first-year student fell on broken glass and cut his back open severely.
Most years we have glass cuts during Ivies and this was the most serious
glass cut injury weve had during my
nine Ivies, said Nichols. Often well
get foot cuts and things like that, so
that was unfortunate, but the student
is recovering and doing well.
Multiple students were escorted
out of Brunswick Quad because of
dangerous behavior.
For most students, however, the
day was a success.
My favorite Ivies event was definitely
Brunswick Quad on Friday, said Lillian
Eckstein 18. It was super fun to just

Please see EVALS, page 7

Please see IVIES, page 4

BY GARRETT CASEY
ORIENT STAFF

Please see MILLS, page 3

MAY 1, 2015

Minimal
damage, one
transport at
150th Ivies

THE SCOOP

During 14-year tenure, outgoing

president prioritizes access.

When President Barry Mills departs from the College in July after
14 years, he will leave behind a legacy
of increased access to Bowdoin and a
more diverse student body, something
he accomplished through a dramatic
expansion of the Colleges financial
aid program.
During his first year as president in
2001, the College awarded $13,870,759
(adjusted for inflation) in need-based
financial aid to 627 students, according
to the Colleges Common Data Set. This
year, Bowdoin provided $29,739,519 in
institutional aid to 803 students, meaning that at the end of Mills tenure, the
College both offers a larger average
grant and provides grants to more students. Mills said that those rising numbers reflect his longstanding belief that
financial aid is essential to the future of
the College.
Its been at the heart and soul of my
commitment to the College since the
day I came, said Mills.
Indeed, as early as his October 27,
2001 inaugural address, Mills had
identified expanding access and supporting students with need as one of
the biggest challenges Bowdoin faced.

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HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Christa Villari 15 serves gelato at Gelato Fiasco on Wednesday night during the annual Scoop-a-Thon fundraiser for The Brunswick Teen Center. All revenue from the day-long
event that exceeds Gelato Fiascos seasonal average revenue is donated to the center, which oers students in grades 6-12 the opportunity to engage in extracurricular activities.
Several celebrity scoopers from Bowdoin volunteer behind the counter to help out and raise awareness each year. The event featured performances by Bowdoin a cappella
groups BOKA and Ursus Versus and student bands Gas Station and The Circus. Last year, the Scoop-a-Thon raised $3,273.

Course evaluations move from paper to web

BY MARINA AFFO
ORIENT STAFF

For the first time, many students

will fill out end-of-semester course
reviews online, rather than by
hand. While the survey itself is not
changing, the means and timing of
distribution are. For this semester,
all tenured faculty will be using the
online forms and by next semester
the entire school will utilize the
online forms.

Professors using online forms

will still have two weeks before
classes end to distribute the surveys. Students can start and finish the surveys entirely in class,
as they did using the handwritten
forms, or they can choose to do
them completely on their own time
outside of class. Professors can also
have students start the surveys in
class and finish them outside of
class.
There are a number of reasons

Senior campaign reaches participation goal, BowdoinOne Day spurs giving

BY VERA FENG
ORIENT STAFF

The ongoing Senior Class Gift

Campaign (SCGC) reached 70 percent participation at press time, unlocking two matching donations
worth $10,000 each. Meanwhile, the
College awaits the results of BowdoinOne Day, a month-long donation
campaign that ended on yesterday. If
over 4,300 gifts were given to the College by yesterday, anonymous donors
would give $2 million to be used for
student financial aid.
Although the One Day website noted
that there were 3,976 gifts in total at
midnight last night, the Office of Development said that the system takes time
to process the gifts and the final number
of gifts and amount of money raised will
be reported early next week.
Its promising, said Neli Vazquez
14, the Annual Givings alumni fund
associate. I feel good about this year.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT: A MIND OF

WINTER

LIAM FINNERTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

PHOTO FINISH: Sophia Cheng 15, Shannon Dominguez 15, Julian Ehrlich 17, Colin Swords 15
and Christine Parsons 15 take a photograph on the Quad for BowdoinOne Day, a 24-hour fundraising campaign.
Since January, 38 class agents from
diverse backgrounds have been working as liaisons between students and the
Office of Development. The mission of
the campaign is educating graduating
students about the importance of giving

back to Bowdoin and encouraging them

to contribute to the alumni fund.
It is an education-based campaign,
said Vazquez. Thats why the match
grant is matched towards participation,
and not how much money we raise. We

highly focus upon how a gift of five dollars is just as effective as a $50 or a $100,
because the percentage is what unlocks
the match grant.
First instituted in 2012, the class agent
program has been growing ever since.
Class agents talk about SCGC and the
alumni fund and stay in touch with the
students to whom they are assignedin
most cases their friends.
One of the important jobs of class
agents is clearing up misconceptions
about how the College raises and
uses funds.
To ensure everyone is getting the
message, said Nancy Walker 15, one
of the SCGC directors. To ensure that
every senior has a 10-minute talk, learning about SCGC and the alumni fund at
large, and debunking some rumors that
can get floated aroundthings that can
get misconstrued; to ensure everyone is
graduating, making the decision to give
based on the full most information.
The biggest misconception is that the

school isnt in need for anything, because

Bowdoin is a prestigious institution and
the tuition is high, added Walker. People think there is a vault with the endowment, just sitting there, like a McDuck
person. But the endowment isnt sitting
behind a safe. X amount of the endowment doesnt transfer into X amount of
expendable money.
The Colleges official website says
that 53 percent of the operating budget
comes from tuition and fees, and funds
taken from the endowment account for
29 percent. Annual giving contributes to
only 6 percent of the whole.
Last year the Class of 2014 reached
87.3 percent participation by the end of
the year, a historical high, and unlocked
a $10,000 matching grant from an anonymous donor; the Class of 2013 had 85
percent participation in the SCGC, according to Kacy Hintze, the associate
director of annual giving.

Please see ONE DAY, page 5

FEATURES: COOKING FORTHE CAUSE

SPORTS: DISC DOMINANCE

OPINION:

Abelar Morell 17 to exhibit winterinspired work at the Bowdoin

College Museum of Art.

Evan Gershkovich 14 on how working for Bowdoin Dining

helped him cook
for hundreds in the
wake of the earthquake in Nepal.

The mens and womens ultimate Frisbee teams

head to nationals.

EDITORIAL: The Bowdoin Goodbye.

Page 13.

Page 9.

Page 16.

Page 21.

Michelle Kruk 16 on whats missing at

Bowdoin.
Page 21.

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A HITCHHIKERS GUIDE
TO BRUNSWICK

LIAM FINNERTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL: Sara Poole18 and Joanna Knutsen18 participate in BowdoinOne Day on April 30th, a celebration of the alumni who support the College.

STUDENT SPEAK: ALL STAR EDITION

What is the most outlandish thing to happen to you this year?

Andrew Cawley 17

Shannon Knight 18

Maggie Seymour 16

Sam Monkman 18

Beating Colby in the energy competition, because Im the worst Eco-Rep out
there.

I ended up getting locked in the

stacks. A security ocer showed up
and didnt see me. He screamed.

I was excited about my seven dollar

water bottle. Pretty cheap for a pretty
nice water bottle.

Searching through trash for

non-soiled recyclable material.

If you were the next president of Bowdoin College, what is the first thing you would do?

Thomas Freeman 17

Daisy Wislar 18

Steve Cho 17

Adriane Krul 15

The immediate response is probably

name a building after myself. Id like to
take over a restaurant in town.

Sunrise Smoothie dispenser in the

dining hall all the time. Free flowing. #SmoothiesForAll.

I would probably replace all the

booths in Thorne with hot tubs.

I would put the softball field on

the campus map. Its currently
not on the map.

What is your favorite place on campus and why?

What does one do when its cold,

the party has ended, and Safe Ride is
backed up for a while? Stick out
a thumb. It worked for Amanda
Bennett 17.
I was coming back from a party
at Ladd, said Bennett, I was with
a friend.
The two were heading back to his
place, which was far off campus, according to Bennett. It was a frigid
Saturday night and since Bennett
was debuting a cute but short
skirt, she deemed the walk a tad
too far for her bare legs.
We wanted a Safe Ride, but we
didnt want to call Safe Ride, said
Bennett, as they were travelling during Safe Ride peak season: 1 a.m.
Thats when it appeared: a Safe
Ride-esque van on the horizon,
drawing near them. Bennetts
friend, thinking it was a shuttle,
threw out his thumb.
This was no shuttle: it fact, it was
the chef from Jack Magees Pub, driving home. He was thrilled to help out
the cold, vagabond students.
The chef said, Oh, hey, come on,
get right in! recounts Bennett.
As luck would have it, Bennetts
companion knew their driver quite
well and the two began chatting in the
front of the car as Bennett listened,
stunned at the nights events. In
fact, the chef even expressed his
excitement about recognizing
Bennett and her friend at the side
of the road.
The chef inquired as to where the
two were headed and even chuckled
when he found they were bound
for an apartment rather than another party.
It was really weird, said Bennett.
I am a unique individual I guess. It
was really awkward.
Bennett does not plan on hitchhiking again, because she feels it
could be dangerous under different
circumstances. However, Bennett
does know of others who have braved
the open road, she said. One friend
hitchhiked back from Brunswick
High with a local artist after missing
her taxi back to school and needing to return in a timely fashion
for a midterm.
Bennett might whip out her new
road travel skills back in her home
town of Presque Isle, Maine.
I feel like theyre safer up there,
she mused. And there are also the
Amish. Maybe I could hitchhike with
the Amish.

BY THE NUMBERS
For the first time in Ivies history,
a company was contracted to remove all of the food and dining
ware waste. Here are some stats.

Nick Barnes 18

Cielle Collins 15

Quincy Koster 15

Julian Ehrlich 17

Right in this very chair. Im in the second

chair from the left, on the counter facing
the caf, next to the railing, across from
the window.

Craft center. Cant share why. I just

remember nails.

Out by the museum, there is this

perfect steam vent. On cold autumn
nights you can go, and it blasts steam
right up your pants!

The Smith Union singleoccupancy bathroom. I call it the

sanctuary. I go in there to think,
make calls, sing, stu like that.

If you could give one piece of advice to all Bowdoin students ever, what would it be?

480

pounds of food and dining ware composted from

Saturdays dinner

12
Green Team volunteers helped
during the event

Bill De La Rosa 16

Chloe Dietrich 16

Jared Littlejohn 15

Edgardo Sepulveda 15

To make the most of Bowdoins

resources.

Its a marathon, not a sprint. Live

your life like its always just about
to be Ivies.

Just smile and say hello. Its a lot easier

for you to ask a favor of someone if
every time they see you, you say hello.

Just do you, and it will all work

out. The deans will understand,
and so will security.

COMPILED BY OLIVIA ATWOOD AND ELIZA GRAUMLICH

bag of trash total collected

(everything else was recycled)
WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY OLIVIA ATWOOD

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BARRY MILLS: 14th President of Bowdoin College, 2001-2015

OCTOBER 27, 2001
Inaugurated in the Colleges
200th academic year

MAY 27, 2004

The College announces
new curriculum

Distribution requirments are

enforced as part of the liberal
arts education.

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APRIL 16, 2005

Diagnosed with prostate
cancer

..

JULY 1, 2004
The Bowdoin Campaign begins
The Campaign, which initially intended
to raise $250 million, raised $293 million by 2009, funding campus projects
including $100 million for financial aid.

JANUARY 18, 2009

Sidney J. Watson ice
arena opens

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Bowdoin acquires 259
acres of land at Naval Air
Station in Brunswick

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..
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SPRING 2013
Endowment surpasses
$1 billion

APRIL 14, 2014

Plans to step down as
President in June 2015

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MILLS

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

MAY 14, 2005

Museum groundbreaking

Breaks ground on $20 million renovation project for Walker Art Building.

OCTOBER 12, 2007

Bowdoin pledges to become
carbon netural by 2020

KATE MASELLI (LEFT) AND HY KHONG (RIGHT), THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

END OF AN ERA: (Left) President Barry Mills was inaugurated in 2001, 29 years after he graduated from Bowdoin. (Left) With only two months remaining in his presidency, Mills sits in his oce and reflects on his fourteen year tenure.

JANUARY 18, 2008

Eliminates student loans.

Beginning with the 2008-09 academic

year, Bowdoin eliminated loans for new
and current students and replaced them
with grants.

JANUARY 23, 2009

Supports pay freeze and small
boost in enrollment.

Mills recommends an increase in the

number of enrolled students at the
College and a salary freeze for faculty
and staff amidst the recession.

APRIL 3, 2013
National Association of Scholars
releases The Bowdoin Project

Nineteen months after an incident

with Mills while golfing, Thomas
Klingstein funded the NASs 360
page critique of the College.

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Proposal of states largest
solar power farm

A 20-year contract with SolarCity

foresees a solar power farm for
the College to be completed in
time for the Class of 2016 to see.

MAY 8, 2014
Embarks on a $100 million financial aid initiative
during his final fourteen
months as president

Our continued commitment to

a strong financial aid program will
ensure that students from rural Maine,
and students from poor neighborhoods
in New York City and Los Angeles, and
even some not-so-wealthy students
from Rhode Island will be able to come
here to learn, he said that day.
Mills himself was once one of those
not-so-wealthy students from Rhode
Island. His father had not finished the
10th grade, yet with the help of financial aid, Mills matriculated at Bowdoin
and graduated in 1972. As he sees it,
expanding access to Bowdoin is an
integral part of the Colleges commitment to the common good.
If you want to think about the
common goodthe idea that you are
creating opportunity for a student who
wouldnt have it otherwise is hugely
important to me, he said.
Dean of Admissions and Financial
Aid Scott Meiklejohn said that the Colleges financial aid program has become
one of its strongest selling points.
I think his view of Bowdoin and
what Bowdoin means as a college, why
Bowdoin exists, is to provide opportunity, and so at the level of inspiration,
that message is really important for us
to be able to communicate, he said.
Mills commitment to financial aid is
not just a message for the Office of Admissions, however. It has a real impact
on how Admissions operates.
Ive just been in northern California
for a week, and theres not one student
I met thereincluding a group of students at a 100 percent first-generation
school in East Palo Altotheres not
one student I met where I have to
express any reservation about their opportunity to come here, because Barry
and others have ensured that we have
the resources to hold the door open,
Meiklejohn said.
The no-loans policy
Mills has been able to oversee a dramatic expansion of financial aid largely
because of his success as a fundraiser
and the strong performances of Bowdoins endowment over the last decade.
We were able to succeed partly
because people recognized that what
we were doing was important for the
students, important for the future for
the school, Mills said, and we were
able to succeed because we were able
to raise the money to do it and because
the endowment grew.
Mills said that donors came to rec-

ognize the importance of financial aid

because it was a prioritysomething
that he reminded them about repeatedly. He joked that he spoke about aid
so often that he sounded like a broken
record. Broken record or not, his was a
tune that got stuck in donors heads.
When I came I was told financial
aid money is very hard to raise, he
said. Interestingly I found financial
aid money is the easiest money to raise,
and in many cases Ive had donors who
weve asked to do other things who
would have preferred to give money to
financial aid.
Fundraising successes allowed Mills
to increase his goals for financial aid.
When his presidency began, he spoke
about the irresponsibility of abandoning the Colleges need-blind admissions

We were able to succeed partly because

people recognized that what we were
doing was important for the students,
important for the future for the school
and we were able to succeed because we
were able to raise the money to do it and
because the endowment grew.
BARRY MILLS
PRESIDENT
policy. Seven years later, he had a far
more ambitious goal in mind: adopting
a policy of meeting 100 percent of
demonstrated need without loans.
Bowdoin announced its no-loans
initiative in January 2008. At the
time, it was one of the only colleges
with an endowment of less than one
billion dollars to commit to no loans.
Mills had worked with members of
the Board of Trustees to help them
understand why it was the right choice
for the College.
Meiklejohn said that Mills had led
the push for the no-loans policy.
At a time when the college had
the resources to expand its financial
aid support and to go no-loan and to
throw even more energy and commitment to low-income, first-generation
students, Barry was the right person
to galvanize the community around
that and push Bowdoin even further
ahead, he said.
The policy has made financial aid
available to middle class families, many
of whom struggle to afford college as its
cost keeps rising. According to Meiklejohn, there are currently 433 students
from households with incomes over
$90,000 who receive financial aid

about half of all aid recipients. Mills

said that there are families on the
higher end of the economic spectrumeven those at the bottom of the
one percentwho have difficulty paying for college and deserve support.
As the country went into a deep
recession in late 2008, the expensive
no-loans initiative was adding to the
Colleges financial stress, but Mills felt
that it was a policy worth maintaining.
Im proud to say we maintained the
no loans. We didnt lay anybody off; everybody kept their jobs, he said. The
College got through that period with
a lot of shared sacrifice where faculty
and staff agreed to freeze salaries for
a couple of years in order to allows us
to maintain our commitments both to
our employees and to the students.
Diversity
The no-loans policy has helped the
College become a more diverse place,
not only in terms of its socioeconomic
composition, but also in terms of its
geographic and racial composition.
According to the Colleges Common
Data Set, there were 50 black students,
50 Hispanic students and 1,295 white
students enrolled during the 2001-2002
academic year. This year, 229 students
identify as Hispanic, 88 as black, 1,147
as white, and 117 as non-Hispanic
members of two or more races.
The College has also drawn more
and more students from outside of New
England, a trend that started before
Mills tenure but has accelerated in
recent years.
The goal always was to make the
school look like Americathat meant
racial diversity; that meant economic
diversity; that meant diversity of view
and we succeeded in doing that to a
point, Mills said. Theres always more
work to be done.
Mills said that these forms of
diversity are important to the Colleges
mission to prepare its students to be
leaders. He and Meiklejohn both said
that after graduating, students will have
to navigate a world where people have
different viewpoints and backgrounds,
and that a diverse student body is excellent preparation for that world.
Creating a community that is
more cosmopolitan, more diverse in
the broadest sense, was essential, I
think, to the future of the College,
Mills said. We recognized that in
order to bring people from different
parts of the United States to the
College, including racial diversity,
we needed to put more money
behind financial aid.

Visit our website, www.bowdoinorient.com, to watch a video of President Mills reflect on his favorite
Bowdoin moments and doing the right thing, from his signature rocking chair.

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BSG recalculates number of

signatures for SJP petition
BY SAM MILLER
ORIENT STAFF

On Thursday, Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) revised the number of

signatures that Students for Justice in
Palestine (SJP) must obtain on its petition calling on Bowdoin to participate
in an academic and cultural boycott of
Israeli institutions in order to prompt an
official student referendum on the issue.
SJP appeared to have reached its goal
of one-fifth of the student body by its
initial Wednesday deadline with 361
signatures before BSG amended the
necessary number to 383 in order to
account for students studying abroad.
BSG has extended SJPs deadline to 5
p.m. today.
According to BSGs constitution,
student-initiated petitions require the
signatures of one-fifth of the student
body to bring an issue to an all-student
referendum. A two-thirds majority of at
least one-third of the student body is required for a referendum to pass.
BSG realized that Bowdoins total
enrollment was 1,915 earlier this week
when it became clear that students
abroad were not included in the base
enrollment number.
They were given the number of 360
for the number of people they needed to
sign, leading up to [Wednesday]...that
number came from Bowdoins website
and was verified by BSG. But essentially
we started to question, What about
people studying abroad who sign it but
arent actually counted in the denominator as far as the 20 percent, explained
BSG President Chris Breen 15.
SJP members expressed frustration
about the decision.
We were completely in the dark, I
would say, in terms of figuring out how
it would be determined how much longer we would have to do this, said SJP
member Sinead Lamel 15.
Juniors Zachary Albert, Rachel Snyder and Evan Eklund submitted an oped to the Orient on April 9 expressing
their opposition to SJPs petition and
urging BSG to reject the resolution.
A lot of the people who are signing
are minimally informed, and those sig-

natures dont mean anything because

they dont know what theyre signing.
But they are about to mean everything,
said Snyder.
Earlier this week, members of J Street
U Bowdoin, a student organization that
labels itself the political home for proIsrael, pro-peace Americans, emailed
all those who had signed the petition
and shared a link through which students could unsign the petition.
Sasha Kramer 16, one of J Street
U Bowdoins leaders, said that many
students thanked the group for enabling them to take their names off
the petition.
Leah Kahn 15, acting on behalf of a
separate group of students but not any
specific organization, forwarded a separate email sharing the same link with
petition signers.
While no group was able to provide
an exact number, Lamel estimated that
around 60 people unsigned the petition
following the emails.
According to Christopher Wedeman 15, another SJP member, a decision from Bowdoin to take part in an
academic and cultural boycott of Israeli
institutions would mean the College
would neither take part in events funded
by Israeli universities or organizations,
nor invite scholars to speak on campus
as representatives of these institutions
though Israeli academics would still be
welcome to speak on campus independent of their organizations.
However, some students expressed
concerns about the boycott.
[The petition] is antithetical to the
mission of Bowdoin College... This is
fundamentally not in concert with what
Bowdoin is, should be, or has been set
out as, said Matthew Liptrot 16.
At press time, SJP needed 24 signatures to reach their new goal. The online
petition currently lists a number eight
below that recognized by BSG, since
some students wished to sign but had
issues with the petition website.
If theres then a referendum, BSG
will run that right away, said Dean of
Student Affairs Tim Foster.
John Branch contributed to this
report.

BSG attends vigil, honors Mills

at final meeting of the year
BY CAITLIN WHALEN
ORIENT STAFF

For the Bowdoin Student Governments (BSG) final meeting of the 20142015 academic year on Wednesday
night, student leaders included President Barry Mills. Members first attended the vigil in honor of the recent
events in Baltimore and then passed
the reigns to next years representatives.
BSG sought out President Mills for
his final thoughts on the year.
The meeting was an opportunity to
talk to President Mills, ask any questions we may have for him, said BSG
President Chris Breen 15. And it was
an opportunity to ask for his thoughts
about BSG.
Before the meeting and conversation
began, however, BSG and Mills visited
the steps of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art where the Student Center
for Multicultural Life was holding the
vigil. In a campus-wide email, Dean of
Student Affairs Tim Foster announced
the event as a way to provide support
and a space for students to process what
is occurring in Baltimore.
We thought it would be a great way

to support the Bowdoin student body,

said Breen, regarding why BSG attended. We thought it would be a good opportunity to go over there and pay our
respects to those that may be grieving at
this time.
After the vigil, BSG and class councils came together and presented
President Mills with a sculpture made
of oysters by Ben Eisenberg 17. President Mills was originally interested in
purchasing the piece for himself at last
falls art show.
We thought it would be a great way
to combine the coastal Maine, where
Bowdoin students work, with [President
Mills] passion for the arts and everything hes done for the arts during his
time here at Bowdoin, said Breen.
The meeting then came to a close as
current BSG representatives said their
thanks and wished next years BSG leaders luck for the following year.
I think they will do a great job, said
Breen. I think they have a cool opportunity to work with the new president
and it leaves open the opportunity for
improvement and change, and to get
to know the new president in a more
personal way.

COURTESY OF ELIZA GRAUMLICH

VIGILANT: Associate Dean for Student Aairs and Director of Residential Life Meadow Davis and Dean for Student Aairs Tim Foster light candles on the Bowdoin
College Museum of Art steps at the vigil for Freddie Gray and other victims of police brutality on Wednesday night. The Student Center for Multicultural Life organized the event
to show solidarity for the protesters in Baltimore. A discussion was hosted in the John Brown Russwurm House following the event.

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hang with friends and bump to the sick
beats. Plus the weather was so fresh.
Although the events at Harpswell
Apartments and Pine Street Apartments on Friday and Saturday nights,
respectively, went seamlessly, Brunswick Quad and Ladd House were more
problematic. According to Nichols,
the Brunswick Quad was very active and kept security officers busy for
the whole day on Friday. Ladd House
hosted an event on Saturday known
to some students as Laddio that demanded similar attention.
There were a number of registered
events approved for Saturday morning
[at Ladd House] and we allowed that
to carry on into the afternoon up until about the concert time, so the Ladd
event got a little raucous, said Nichols.
A chair was smashed by a student on
the patio and a window was also shattered by a student.
Security determined that the broken

window at Ladd was an accident, citing

particularly wild dance moves as the
cause. The student has agreed to pay
for the damages. Security is still trying
to determine who is responsible for the
vandalism of the chair on the patio.
Public urination was the most frequent citation this weekend, particularly inside and outside Ladd House
on Saturday.
Public urination was not as big of a
problem at Brunswick Quad as it has
been in previous years. Nichols attributed this to the Colleges decision to introduce numerous porta-potties for the
event this year.
I guess one takeaway is to bring on
more porta-potties at the larger events
said Nichols. That said, there are nearly
a thousand toilets on campus, so with
minimal effort everyone should be able
to find one.
For the second year in a row, the
Office of Student Activities decided
to move the Saturday concert indoors
to Farley Field House. The concert
was headlined by The White Panda
and Logic.

Although it ended up not raining all

that much on Saturday, it turned out to
be pretty cold and windy so I think it
was the right call to put the show inside,
said Co-Chair of the Entertainment
Board (eBoard) Matt Friedland 15.
Nichols said that although the decision to move the event indoors is not
one that students typically favor, it does
make securitys job less challenging
because they can control access to the
venue more easily.
However I always prefer to have it
outsideits more fun Nichols said.
In comparison to previous years,
there were no reported problems with
disorderly visitors.
Despite the few incidents that did occur, Nichols said he believed that it was a
successful Ivies, and the eBoard agreed.
We are very happy with how the
weekend went overall, said Friedland
in an email to the Orient. We loved
the excited atmosphere that campus
brought to the show. The performers
fed off the energy of the crowd and we
think all three acts did a fantastic job.
Its nice to see hard work pay off and

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IP3, professors ask faculty to

support September teach-in
While the format of the teach-in is yet
to be formalized, Celis believes it will be
an event in which students can particiThe joint student and faculty campus
pate as much or as little as they want.
group Intersections: People, Planet and
The teach-in will not be about canPower (IP3) will make a proposal at the
cellation of classes, said Celis. We
upcoming May faculty meeting to hold
have designed it in a way that would
a teach-in on September 17, dedicated
allow several levels of participation,
to tackling issues of social and environas we are intentional about respecting
mental injustice.
everyones position.
The teach-in would provide an opThe proposal currently combines
portunity for students, faculty and staff
panel discussions with open classes
to inform themselves, said Associate
across the College. The open classes
Professor of Romance Languages Nawould be co-taught by faculty in differdia Celis, a key orchestrator of the IP3
ent fields, so as to provide a co-curricmovement. The
ular opportunity for
aim of IP3 is to
students to learn.
We are asking the faculty
create a space and
Our focus will
series of events in
to make a statement about the be on utilizing the
which we can beresources available
importance of this day, and we are to us here, rather
gin to think about
concerns of exploi- asking them to assume responsibil- than bringing in
tation of nature and
experts,
ity for addressing the needs and outside
human beings, and
said A. LeRoy
see how the addi- wants of the students on campus. Greason Profestion of one thing to
sor of Music Mary
another aggravates
Hunter.
NADIA CELIS
the problems.
According
to
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ROMANCE
According
to
Celis, over 50 facLANGUAGES
Courtney Payne
ulty members and
15, one of IP3s stu70 students have
dent leaders, the group is led by a core
given feedback to and assistance with
of approximately 15 students and 15
the event.
professors. She says shed like to see the
Hunter is not certain as to whether
teach-in reach a part of campus that the
the proposal will pass, but she is hopgroups messages have not yet reached.
ing her peers will officially recognize the
Our events have had good turnouts,
importance of the event.
but weve seen the same faces, Payne
This is something a lot of students
said of IP3 events that have included
are definitely very passionate about,
a social justice panel and facilitated
said Hunter. We are crossing our finconversations instructing on how to
gers that the proposal will pass.
improve difficult conversations. The
The IP3 teach-in already has the
teach-in is our particular mission besupport of President Mills, but Hunter
cause we believe that more students
believes it will all depend on the faculty
who dont normally engage in these
turn out on the day of the meeting.
conversationsdont have time to or
There will be between 120 to 140 facdont choose to, for whatever reasons
ulty voting, some more passionate about
would have a chance to get involved.
these issues than others, said Hunter. It
Hunter originally proposed the
will really depend on how many people
teach-in at the last faculty meeting. The
come to the meeting. Some faculty will
proposal is also not asking for permiscome just to vote; some will really want
sion to hold the teach-in, but rather askto vote but be unable to attend.
ing for the endorsement of the faculty.
Celis believes it is Bowdoins responWe are asking the faculty to make a
sibility to address these issues, and bestatement about the importance of this
lieves the teach-in is a great way to do so.
day, and we are asking them to assume
If we are driven by the desire of the
responsibility for addressing the needs
Common Good, this teach-in is the
and wants of the students on campus,
very embodiment of what our role is,
said Celis.
said Celis.
BY LUCIA GIBBARD
ORIENT STAFF

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Our overall goal is 85 percent,
said Walker.
Besides the anonymous donor who
challenged the last three graduating
classes, President Barry Mills will also
commit $10,000 if the participation goal
is fulfilled. The donors will give $20,000
scholarships in total to rising first years.
Yesterday was BowdoinOne Day, the
final day of the month-long alumni fundraising campaign in April. To earn the
$2 million for financial aid from anonymous donors, 4,300 donors, including
the graduating senior class, must have
donated by yesterday.
For students, BowdoinOne Day is
about celebrating school pride and
expressing gratitude to the donating
alumni. A number of events were organized to engage the student body
and encourage social media posts with
#BowdoinOneDay.
Were really trying to make it a Bowdoin Pride Day that centers on us coming
together as a community and thinking
about those alumni who had generously
made the opportunity and environment
we had here possible, said Vazquez.

There was tabling for thank you notes

to alumni, a photo shoot with the polar bear mascot and distribution of free
#BowdoinOneDay frisbees on the Quad.
They are feeding off good sentiments from the campus, said Hintze.
The reason why we are having students
post on social media is that they are
showing off how great their experiences
are, which makes the alumni feel good
about their investment in students.
This is the third year BowdoinOne
Day has occured. In the past, BowdoinOne Day was a 24-hour fundraising
campaign, but this year lasted a month
and aimed for a higher goal compared to
the 1,520 gifts received last year.
Bowdoin has retained a high alumni
participation rate, especially the youngest graduating classes, according to
Hintze. U.S. News lists Bowdoin as one
of the 10 schools where the greatest percent of alumni donate.
Bowdoin is really fortunate in the
sense that the gifts coming from alumni
are genuine, said Vazquez. We dont
really have to do much to incentivize
them. The alumni base is so proud and
still so loving of the Bowdoin community that they are willing to give it back
to maintain the same experience, if not a
better one for future students.

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SUMMER

ACADEMIC YEAR IN REVIEW

The summer months at Bowdoin

were marked by construction and
technological changes on campus.
The Brunswick Town Council voted
to approve parking regulations in late
August. These regulations included a
two-hour parking limit and restricted
overnight parking on Park Row, following the Colleges elimination of 63
student parking spaces in February
2014. Students expressed frustration
and concern over these new parking bans, wondering if their mobility
would be hampered.
The College also underwent many
renovations, such as the installation
of solar panels on the roof of Sidney J.
Watson Arena. The panels have been
operational since August 29 2014,
and are the states largest solar panel
project. The College also added solar
panels to Farley Field House, Greason Pool and 52 Harpswell, which
will supply power to the South Campus Loop, which includes Osher Hall,
West Hall, and Moulton Union, starting in October. 52 Harpswell, Coles
Tower, and Hubbard Hall also underwent summer construction to boost
energy efficiency on campus.
Information Technology adjusted
the printer system on campus while
students were away. Up until the fall
semester, students could easily print
any items in the queues at public printers, even those that did not belong to
them. The updated system requires
students to enter their usernames and
only allows them to print their own
documents. Students were happy with
the improvements in terms of electronic security, but expressed frustration at not having known these changes were taking place.

SEPTEMBER

Bowdoins endowment generated a

return of 19.2 percent, reaching an alltime high of $1.216 billion at the end
of fiscal year 2014. The performance of
Bowdoins endowment led Institutional
Investor, a global finance magazine, to
name it Endowment of the Year.
Roughly 90 students travelled to New
York City to participate in the Peoples
Climate March. The students joined
over 100,000 others at the event aimed
at pressuring world leaders to address
climate change.
The Orient spoke with DeRay
McKesson 07, who had been organizing protests in Ferguson, Mo. following
the non-indictment of the police officer
who shot and killed Michael Brown in
August. McKesson later came to campus in April to talk about his work as
an organizer and social media activist.
He also made headlines this week in an
interview on CNN during protests in
Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray.

OCTOBER

Four students from Bowdoin Climate

Action (BCA) met with members of the
Colleges Board of Trustees during their
fall meeting to discuss BCAs proposal
for the College to divest from the top
200 publicly-traded fossil fuel companies within five years. The students gave
a 25-minute presentation followed by
about 20 minutes of questions and discussion with the trustees in attendance.
According to President Barry Mills, the
Board concluded that divestment was
not viable for Bowdoin at the time, and
BCA continued to focus on their goal.
Anthony Doerr 95 was selected as a
finalist for the National Book Award for
Fiction for his 2014 novel All the Light
We Cannot See. In April, Doerr won
the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for
the book.

(TOP) ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT (LEFT) SHANNON DEVENY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT (RIGHT) HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

COLD WINTER, HEATED TALKS: (TOP) Student activists gathered during the Meeting in the Union in February to discuss a number of campus and cultural issues. (LEFT) A student walks through
one of several snowstorms that hit campus this winter. (Right) Students stage a die-in to protest the non-indictment of the police ocer who killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER

Beloved professor Richard Morgan

59 died in November at 77 after 45
years on the faculty. In addition to being
a revered constitutional scholar, Morgan
was a distinguished faculty member and
occupied the office at the top of Hubbard Halls tower, a testament to his
stature at the College and a cherished
space for generations of students who
attended his office hours.
The fall sports season brought success for the mens soccer team and the
field hockey team. Mens soccer won its
first ever NESCAC championship, defeating both Middlebury and Amherst
in upsets, propelling them to their first
NCAA tournament appearance since
2010. The field hockey team made it to
the NCAA Division III Championship
game for the second year in a row, but
lost to The College of New Jersey 2-1.
Registration for the spring semester
saw a substantial increase in demand
for computer science courses, leaving
many students and prospective majors
or minors shut out of classes. While professors agreed to add more sections and
allow class sizes to go over previously set
limits, many students were concerned
that this would be a recurring problem.
Following the non-indictment of
the police officer who shot and killed
Michael Brown, student leaders held a
number of events, including a campuswide vigil and a die-in in the dining
halls.
At the final faculty meeting of the semester, the faculty surprised President
Barry Mills by announcing an endowed
scholarship in honor of he and his wife
Karen Mills and their commitment to fi-

nancial aid. The scholarship was funded

by over 175 current and former faculty who, together with an anonymous
alumni donor, created the Bowdoin
Faculty Scholarship in honor of Barry
and Karen Mills which will provide
roughly $5,000 to a student each year as
part of their financial aid package.
During the last week of fall classes,
Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster
emailed the entire campus to announce
that the College would take disciplinary
action against students who dressed up
as Native Americans at an off-campus
party known as Cracksgiving.

JANUARY

In January, the College launched a

search for a director of the new Student
Center on Multicultural Life, which will
be located at 30 College Street and will
open for the 2015-2016 school year.
President Barry Mills sent a campuswide email recommending that the
College begin the spring semester after
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in future
years so that students can observe the
holiday without feeling the pressure of
missing classes.
At the end of the month, the Board
of Trustees announced that Clayton S.
Rose will succeed Mills as the Colleges
next president. Rose is a professor of
management practice at Harvard Business School and a former businessman
at J.P. Morgan. Although some people
expressed concern that another white
male would be the leader of Bowdoin,
most were excited and confident that
his impressive academic background
which includes a doctorate in sociologywill serve the community well

during his tenure at the College.

The month ended as Winter Storm
Juno dumped over two feet of snow on
campus, causing the College to consider
cancelling all classes for the first time
since the 1970 Kent State shooting. The
campus suffered only minor electrical
damage despite 50 mile per hour winds.

FEBRUARY

A group of students organized a

Meeting in the Union to discuss issues of
race, gender, sexuality, class and climate
at Bowdoin; about 200 students gathered to hear speeches about each topic.
During the speech on climate, Bowdoin Climate Action (BCA) announced
their plans to escalate action calling for
fossil fuel divestment if a trustee was
not appointed as a divestment liaison
by March 6. The group organizing the
meeting also released an open letter to
the community, which they delivered to
the office of President Mills, during the
gathering.
Ladd House canceled their annual
Inappropriate Party, citing concerns
over the possibility of cultural appropriation and offensive attire.
Wil Smith 00, one of the Colleges
most well-known and well-loved recent
alumni, passed away after a long battle
with colon cancer. Smith is most know
for attending Bowdoin and playing varsity basketball at 28 while also caring
for his young daughter, Olivia. Smith
served as both the director and associate
dean of multicultural student programs
at Bowdoin, and was working as the
dean of community and multicultural
affairs at the Berkshire School at the
time of his death.

MARCH/APRIL

Students living in the off-campus

residence known as Crack House were
informed that a January inspection of
their home yielded eight fire and lifesafety violations
Associate Professor of Government
Michael Franz, in conjunction with
his class, Quantitative Analysis in Political Science, conducted a scientific,
campus-wide survey to gauge peoples
opinions on various issues relating to
Bowdoin. Sixty eight percent of respondents replied, stating that they believed
political correctness is a problem at
Bowdoin currently. Mounting concern
for the administrations strong stance
on being politically correct stemmed in
large part from the decision to punish
14 lacrosse players for dressing as Native
Americans at an off-campus party and
the cancellation by Ladd House of the
annual Inappropriate Party.
The Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) held its annual election
for the executive committee, which
concluded on April 13. BSG chose
to push back the closing of the polls
twice due to the 13-year-old voting
system crashing multiple times as a
result of increased voter traffic. Apart
from this extension, questions about
election procedures were raised concerning the selective release of margin
numbers before the poll closed and
campaign financing as it related to the
purchasing of advertising posters by
the candidates.
Compiled by Olivia Atwood, Sam
Chase, Matthew Gutschenritter, Meg
Robbins, Nicole Wetsman and Kate
Witteman.

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SECURITY REPORT: 4/23 to 4/30

Thursday, April 23
A student reported a confrontational encounter with another student on the dance floor at the Reel
Big Fish concert at the David Saul
Smith Union.
Friday, April 24
The fire alarm in Coleman Hall was
activated when an intoxicated student
bumped into an alarm pull station.
A male student was giving a piggyback ride to a female student on
the walkway behind the Dudley Coe
building. The male student tripped
and fell onto his face on the pavement as the rider was thrown to
ground and broke her collar bone.
A security officer escorted both students to Mid Coast Hospital.
A student with a shard of glass
in his foot was taken to the Peter
Buck Center for Health and Fitness
for treatment.
A neighbor complained of excessive noise coming from a gathering in
the backyard at Reed House. An officer spoke with a group of students.
Students cooking burgers at
Reed House activated the buildings
fire alarm. Brunswick Fire Department responded.
An intoxicated student was removed from the Brunswick Quad
and escorted to his residence hall for
the remainder of the afternoon.
A student at Brunswick Apartments was verbally warned for
urinating in public. The student
promised not to do it again. An
hour later,the same student urinated near the shuttle stop in view
of Maine Street. A report was filed
with the deans office.
A group of students watching a
Bowdoin-Colby baseball game at the
Pickard athletic fields was reported to
be perturbing the Colby right fielder.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student
with a bloody knee sustained at
the Brunswick Quad. The officer
cleaned up and bandaged the knee.
A number of students on the
Brunswick Quad were reminded
that their judgment was impaired.
Others were cautioned to stop being

annoying and overly exuberant.

An officer taught a student how
to cook a burger on a charcoal grill.
A student was cited for urinating
in public at Brunswick Apartments
within feet of a line of porta-potties.
A student was cited for smoking
marijuana on the Brunswick Quad.
Three large beer funnels being
used at the Brunswick Quad were
confiscated.
Burnt microwave popcorn activated a smoke alarm in Coleman Hall.
An intoxicated student who was
acting out on the Brunswick Quad was escorted to his off-campus residence.
A patriotic
student who was
at times leaning precariously
out of a second
story window
while waving
Old Glory was
asked to keep
the bulk of his
body
inside
the window for
his and others
safety. A short
while later, the
student was
again
seen
sticking too
far out and he
was
warned
again. After a
third time, the
incorrigible student was ordered
to leave the apartment. A report
was filed with the
deans office.
A student fell
backwards on the
Brunswick Quad
and deeply slashed
his back on a shard
of broken glass.
Brunswick Rescue
transported the student to Mid Coast
where he was treated

with multiple stitches.

A stairwell wall was vandalized
at Brunswick Apartments S.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of two intoxicated students in
Coles Tower.
An officer aided an intoxicated
student at Brunswick Apartments S.
An officer checked on the condition of an intoxicated student in
Osher Hall.
Loud music on the 14th floor of
Coles Tower was reported to be disturbing residents. An officer turned
off the music.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student at
Coleman Hall.
Saturday, April 25
A student with abdominal pain was escorted to
Mid Coast.

There was a minor two-vehicle

accident in the Helmreich House
parking lot.
An unregistered beer keg was
confiscated from a group of students
on the rugby field.
Several students and guests at a
Ladd House event were warned for
urinating in public.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student inside Ladd House.
A student inside Ladd House
was cited for urinating into a red
Solo cup.
A student
who was busting a move on
the Ladd House
patio accidentally busted a window. An officer
located the student and treated
a minor hand injury. The student
will be billed for
the glass replacement.
An intoxicated
student
who had been at
the Ladd House
event and then went
to Reed House was
transported to Mid
Coast by Brunswick
Rescue.
A student was
cited for urinating
on the floor at the
Farley Field House
concert.
Three students
jumped the barricades in attempts to
access the stage during a performance at
Farley Field House.
One student was asked
to leave the event,
the other two were
warned.
A student who became dizzy after being
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across 12 courses.
We did a survey of all the students who participated in the pilot
and the student response was uniformly positive, Judd said. The
commentsthe qualitative part
was greater on the online forms
than the paper form.
The survey revealed that students felt that they were able to
give more complete and more
thoughtful answers on course
evaluations, since they had the
flexibility to do the surveys whenever they wanted.
People said it was at least the
same as doing it in class and many

cert was escorted to Mid Coast.

A Longfellow Avenue resident
reported hearing loud noise in the
area of the Robert H. and Blythe
Bickel Edwards Center for Art and
Dance.
A dining employee reported
vandalism to his personal vehicle
that was parked at Farley Field
House during the Ivies concert.
Sunday, April 26
Excessive noise was reported on
the first floor of Hyde Hall.
An officer assisted a student
who was having a diabetic reaction
related to the consumption of hard
alcohol.
A wooden chair was found severely vandalized at Ladd House.
An officer assisted a student who
closed a finger in a vehicle door.
An officer conducted a wellness
check on an intoxicated student at
Brunswick Apartments.
A student lifting weights at the
Buck Fitness Center sustained a
shoulder injury. Brunswick Rescue transported the student to Mid
Coast.
Monday, April 27
A student using a hair straightener at Chamberlain Hall accidentally triggered a smoke alarm.
A student took responsibility
for causing wall damage in Coleman
Hall.
A student driving a leased College van accidentally struck a students vehicle that was parked on
Park Row.
Tuesday, April 28
A local resident was given a
criminal trespass warning after
he was seen rummaging through
campus dumpsters. The man had
previously been warned for the
same behavior.
Wednesday, April 29
A student with abdominal pain
was escorted to Mid Coast.
Thursday, April 30
A smoke alarm at West Hall
was caused by a housekeeper dusting a stairwell.
Compiled by the Office of Safety
and Security.
cited many of the advantages we
found, including their ability to do
it with a clear head, Judd said.
There is a drawback to the online form, however.
Faculty are nervous, said Judd.
Now that students have the option to do them outside of class
there is the added risk that students will not take the surveys.
Students will get reminders
about completing the forms and
a clear sense of when the deadlines for completing those forms
are, but its important that they do
them, said Judd.
She added, We really value and
depend on student feedback to
help us continuously improve the
teaching at Bowdoin and continuously improve the experience.

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You are what you eat: investigating food sourcing at Bowdoin

BY JULIAN ANDREWS
AND HARRY DIPRINZIO
ORIENT STAFF

Bowdoin Dining Services purchases and receives a startling amount of

food every week. According to Associate Director of Dining Kenneth
Cardone, Bowdoin serves 23-24
thousand meals per week, consuming a quantity of meat, fish, produce,
fruit and dry goods that weighs thousands of pounds.
To provide such a huge quantity
of food, Bowdoin relies on a range of
suppliers. Sourcing and Menu Manager Matt Caiazzo said that approximately 80 percent of the total food
purchases are from the Performance
Food Group (PFG) NorthCenter distribution facility in Augusta, Maine.
PFG supplies Bowdoin with an
enormous range of products. Almost all meat that is not ground
beef comes from PFG, as do eggs,
non-milk dairy products, dry pantry
goods, fruit besides apples and many
paper products and supplies. PFG is a
satellite location of a national distribution company that contracts with
some of the biggest players in the
food industry including Tyson, Kraft
and ConAgra among others.
The other 20 percent of the food
budget is spent at a variety of midsized sources. Bubier Meats, in
Greene, Maine supplies primal cuts
of locally raised beef that Bowdoin
grinds in a meat cutting room in
Thorne Dining Hall. All of Bowdoins
ground beef is local and ground inhouse. Bowdoin sometimes buys
processed meat from GoodSource
Solutions, a California based com-

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BRINGING HOME THE BACON: Bowdoin Dining serves 23-24,000 meals every week, requiring it to bring in thousands of pounds of food. Most of
Bowdoins food comes from Performance Food Group Northfield, who deliver straight to Dinings door every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
pany that purchases discounted
surplus product from industrial
processers immediately after a client
discontinues an item or changes its
production specifications.
PJ Merril Seafood and Harbor
Fish, both based in Portland, Maine,
as well as Maine Shellfish Company
from Kennebunk, Maine provide
Bowdoin with seafood, much of

which is caught off the Maine coast.

Each company is a small distributor
with national connections.
Similarly, Bowdoins farm produce comes from multiple sources.
In addition to a small amount of
produce from the Bowdoin Organic
Garden, Dining also purchases from
the Crown O Maine Organic Cooperative and Farm Fresh Connection,

both aggregators and distributors of

produce from small to midsize producers in Maine.
While Cardone and Caiazzo identified these businesses as suppliers to
Bowdoin, they were unable to provide
any information about the respective
quantity of food purchased from each.
Bowdoins Controllers Office was also
unable to provide any information

about payments to each vendor.

In recent years, awareness about
the provenance of food has increased
significantly, as has awareness of the
steep external cost that many methods of food production carry. The
cost is manifested in harsh conditions for migrant farm workers, as
well as in the outsized environmental
impact of the industrial livestock industry, which accounts for 15 percent
of global carbon emissions.
This cost also appears in the ecosystem-damaging runoff of chemical
fertilizer and pesticides from croplands not to mention the public heath
threat posed by widespread antibiotic
and hormone use in animal feed.
Others have taken issue with cruel
and inhumane treatment of animals,
including confining pregnant and
nursing sows in gestation crates and
confining laying hens in battery cages. The widespread use of genetically
modified organisms (G.M.O.s) in the
food system has also become a target
for activist consumers, though there is
not yet a definitive consensus that they
pose any risk to consumers.
The food system is so complex and
opaque that it is nearly impossible
to understand and account for all of
its externalities. For instance, an Associated Press investigation recently
found that slavery is widespread the
Thai fishing industry, which supplies
fish to many large retailers and distributors in the U.S. and Europe.
Some of the food Bowdoin serves
avoids the external costs of the industrial food system but Bowdoin

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BEN MILLER
As this school year, this esteemed
volume of the Orient and consequently
this intrepid column draw to a close, I
cant help but feel a little bit sentimental.
In times like these, when stress, nostalgia and anticipation converge, there
are only a few possible places to seek
asylum. Other than the obvious refuge
of a joyous and transporting meal, the
troubled mind can escape in unexpected moments of inspiration.
Though most of my biweekly cravings happened to conveniently coincide
with my Orient columns schedule, this
final opportunity to overanalyze food
came with no accompanying craving to
serve as my guide. It was only after I had
given up entirely, surrendering to the
mindless vortex of social media, that a
bit of excerpted verse jolted my culinary
spirit back to life.
It was a post by Bowdoin Missed Encounters that read as follows:
Julian Andrews: Youre the only
reason I go to the Korean display
station. I am Edgar Allen Poe and
youre my raven. Deep into that
darkness peering, long before I
stood there wondering, fearing;
doubting, dreaming dreams no mor-

BARREL

A HA

BEN APPTIT

tals ever dared to dream before; but

the silence was unbroken, and the
stillness gave no token, and the only
word there spoken was one whispered word, Julian?
Of course! How could I have been
so blind, so tasteless? Not only has the
Korean food display at Moulton long
been my favorite dining hall offering,
but the sought-after chef himself
the Orients very own (OVO) Julian
Andrews 17is also the very same
Features Editor who has tolerated my
deadline-defying feats all year. This
opportunity had been sitting right under my nose all year, taking on many
fragrant forms including bibimbap,
Korean tacos and, most recently, scallion pancakes. To miss an encounter
with any of these dishes would warrant its own melancholy poetic Facebook post, so I make sure to clear
my schedule every Tuesday for some
quality time at Moulton.
In all cases, the long line for the display station was a worthy price to pay for
Brunswicks best (and only) Korean delicacies. My first love, the classic bibimbap, delivered flavors that were largely
absent from this culinary landscape.
With an absorbent sticky rice foundation, juicy thin-sliced beef, crisp lettuce,
funky kimchi and an expertly fried egg

The initial odor that escaped the plastic container almost made us gag. It is
akin to some sort of wine-scented compost. After it had time to breatheif
you could call it thatone visiting commenter said that it smelled like trash
juice. Brandon thought it was pleasing
and earthy, while another visitor said it
became offensive over time.
The wine is surprisingly acidic and
is not as sweet as one may guess based
on its pink color and fancy packaging. It
is fairly tasteless overall, but it has quite
a strong aftertaste of alcohol and earth.
According to Brandon,
this aftertaste is
what you would expect your mouth to
taste like when you
vomit this wine up
later. This is despite
the wrapping saying
it has notes of berries. This is certainly no
white zin.
At the same time, it is
surprisingly drinkable and
when judged in the context
of its wine-to-go platform, it is
maybe not all too bad. We honestly think you could do better,
but if you are looking for a middling
quality taste with cool packaging this
may be for you.
With a high 12.6 percent alcohol
by volume, you can really feel this
wine burn through you. The Xo, G
has a pretty flat and boring mouthfeel
that could be called silky if we were
feeling generous.

ANN

OF THE

So with that, we bid farewell to this

column and to you, our faithful readers.
We are certainly not bidding goodbye
to the wine though. Over the year weve
gained a new appreciation for wine, and
weve learned a lot. Our most important
lesson, that we hope weve passed on to
you, is that you dont have to splurge to
keep your next dinner, party, outdoor
picnic, or stress-induced sobbing session classy. You can certainly find some
great wine for under $10, and we hope
this column has inspired you to add
more wine to your life.
As always,
XO, B + B
Nose:
Body:
Mouthfeel:
Taste:
Final, final thoughts:
Brandon: What a year, what a column, what a beginning to my lifelong
wine-based alcoholism. But in all seriousness, though I am continuously
shocked that we have somehow managed to gain a readership, it has been
great hearing all of your suggestions
and compliments.
Bryce: Wine column Tuesdays have
become the highlight of the early part
of my week. Thank you to all those
who have voiced their support and excitedly told me they took our advice.
Its fun to see we actually have a readership and that there are people who
believe what we say.

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Post-quake Gershkovich 14 uses Bowdoin Dining skills to feed hundreds

who know, met, or just remember
the names, Eric Edelman 13, Isaac
Brower 13 and Steve Borukhin
April 30, 2011. Saturday of Ivies.
14 started the wonderful CamThe day Ive been looking forward
pus Food Trucks, and so, after the
to since I arrived on campus at the
kitchen was prepped and the doors
end of August for orientation.
to the Pub opened, all of the intoxI wake early, I head to Ladd patio,
icated concert goers streamed in.
and I drink champagne even though
And I mean streamed in. Everyone
Im hungover as shit. Soon Im drunk
was there.
and Im dancing on the couches and
Angie Menard, the head cook at
the tables. We all are. Its a party, the
the time, tells me Id be working
kind of party we dont usually get
the sandwich and salad line. She
since we chose to study at a small
also said, Sober up quick, and
school, since we wanted the benefits
dont let Richard find out. Richof the small comard Hart is the
munity, the close
boss of all sturelationships
with
dent workers
professors, the etc.
at the Pub. He
I was working harder than
But its Saturday of
didnt find out.
Ive
ever
worked
in
my
life,
Ivies, so we party. We
But Rich, you
motherfucking party.
have my perand I wasnt not handling it
But then I rememmission to hit
wellmy
mind
was
shot
and
ber: Im working at
me when you
the Pub at 5:30.
see me again.
I couldnt focus
When I got to
I was workcampus
at
the
ing
harder
end of August, I
than Ive ever
didnt only find out about all the
worked in my life, and I wasnt
Bowdoin rituals; I also found out
handling it well at firstmy mind
about my assigned campus job reis shot and I cant focus. Since that
quired through my financial aid
day, I never came to work the least
package. Although Bowdoin hands
bit intoxicated. The kitchen is a
out phenomenal grant moneybedangerous place if youve never
lieve menot everything is free,
worked in onesharp objects,
and I was assigned to work at Jack
scalding hot oil and ovens, etc.
Magees Pub and Grill, or the Pub.
Orders were coming more freAnd even though Bowdoin uses
quently and in greater quantity
the first-year moniker rather than
than they ever have, and I struggled
freshman for those new to camto keep up, especially while paying
pus, its new members are treated
attention to comments like: Dude,
just like at any other institution
like when the balloons dropped?
in the world, and so I was handed
How sick was that? in reference to
the Saturday 5:30-9 shift, which,
the Janelle Monae concert I had to
though a pretty damn good shift
miss to get to the kitchen on time
most weeks is still the runt of the
to prep for the shift. Why couldnt
litter in terms of Pub shifts, falling
Mac Miller have gone last? That
on Bowdoins day of days: Saturday
absolutely lame guy, pulling his
of Ivies.
shirt up and telling, not asking,
So there I was, hammered, with
all the girls in the crowd to do the
about seven hours to go until my
same (with less eloquent phrasing,
shift. Shit, I thought. But I did stop
mind you). How the much-too-PC
drinking.
student culture didnt erupt at his
This was before, for those of you
comment, I still dont know.
BY EVAN GERSHKOVICH
CONTRIBUTOR

I got through it, though. Richard

was goofy and kept me upbeat, and
then was serious when it got real,
making sure I was focused. And
Angie was goofy the whole time,
especially when Richard turned
his back, making sure the positive
vibes never went away. And I kept
my mind on the motto of Don Day,
another head chef in the pub: A
clean kitchens a happy kitchen,
and focused on keeping the hundreds of Bowdoin students healthy
through it all.
I never thought how much that
dayand the rest of the countless
days I worked at the Pub during
my next three years at Bowdoin
would come to mean to me.
April 25, 2015. Saturday of Ivies.
Im a graduate now, though, four
years on from my first Ivies, and
I havent woken up early to drink
this time. Its 10 a.m. in Kathmandu, Nepal, and I slowly get out of
bed, feeling the shits coming on
again, burning up with fever.
My coworker and I decided I
needed two days of rest before
heading on westward to work with
rural communities on options for
climate change adaptation. I had

As I push through the crowd

towards the exit, a bookcase
falls on me, pinning me
against the railing.

just spent a week in the Terai region of Nepal doing the same, and
thats where I picked up the fever
and shits, probably from eating goat
blood and intestines as beer snacks.
If it werent for that sickness I
would have gone west earlier, right
into the epicenter of the earthquake.
I felt better, though, and so I figure Id head to a caf to do some

work. I settled down, and thats

prep; cook, clean, prep. And we
when it happened. The building
never slept.
started shaking. And I mean shakAt one point, we fed almost 400
ing. Girls shriek, tables fly across
people. And throughout, I existed
the room, and people cant stand
on what Angie, Rich, Don and
as we tried to escape the collapsKathy Reed and her husband Dave,
ing building. As I pushed through
a janitor in the Union, taught me
the crowd towards the exit, a bookback at the Pub in Brunswick:
case fell on me, pinning me against
working with goofiness and huthe railing. Someone pulled on me
mor, and with seriousness when
and then I was through. And then,
needed; prioritizing cleanliness at
in some Lord of the Rings shit, I
all times to make sure no one gets
ran across a crumbling walkway
sick (with four hundred people
to the other side
sleeping in one
of the building,
public space, if
and then down
we had gotten
and out, out into
one person sick,
Thats what we did for the
the streets, bricks
that might have
next three straight days; cook,
coming
down.
been a disaster in
Then I was in a
itself ); and above
clean, prep; cook, clean, prep.
parking lot, safe
all else, being
And we never slept.
from the fatal
generous
even
falling
objects,
when there is not
riding out wave
much to give.
after wave of afWe
started
tershocks.
running out of supplies about
But the guyJay Wellman of
two and a half days after the first
Denverwho had helped me unquake. One American woman
pin me now realized after the
complained that I only served her
adrenaline subsided that he had
four pieces of ravioli. The military
badly hurt his ankle during our esate as little as possible so others
cape, and so I helped him get to the
wouldnt go hungry, and the NeUS embassy as it was getting dark.
pali staff worked tirelessly without
There, once he was safe with the
eating even though they were the
US military medics who had flown
ones who had lost their homes and
in for avalanche rescue training, I
some, their relatives.
went to the kitchen on instinct.
While I truly appreciate everyDinner had already been served
thing I learned at Bowdoin and
for a couple hundred, but there
believe all the knowledge I gained
were only two people in the kitchfrom my professors is truly invaluen: Julie, a former cook, and Malable, when faced with survival, the
colm, a U.S Army chef. And so I
only help I could offer in serving
joinedand later a former Peace
for the Common Good was what
Corps member, April, who learned
I learned at the Pub from the inher kitchen trade at a Taco Bell,
credible Bowdoin Dining Services
joined, tooand we stayed up all
workers, who, like most other sernight cooking for the consulate
vice workers, go unappreciated far
workers taking calls from back
too often.
home about missing Americans
So, if youre still looking for
and then prepping for breakfast,
a job for the summer or for after
which we then cooked and served,
you graduate, consider the service
never once getting a wink of sleep.
sector. You never know when the
And thats what we did for the next
skills and values youll learn will
three straight days: cook, clean,
come in handy.

Athletes, chem-free students find alternative ways to celebrate Ivies

BY MICHAEL COLBERT
ORIENT STAFF

Every year when snow starts to melt

and finals loom ahead, the cans of
PBR, backward trucker hats and ironic t-shirts begin to emerge. Whether
Ivies is indoors or out, Bowdoin students rally for the campus-wide event.
However, some on campus do not
participate in the weekend of revelry.
Spring athletes, in the midst of their
seasons, spend their time practicing
and competing, while chem-free students seek out other alternatives to the
traditional, booze-filled events.
Bowdoins track and field teams
competed in the NESCAC championship meet last Saturday during Ivies
weekend, as they do every year.
NESCACs is a big deal to all the
sports teams, Chris Genco 15 said.
While the rest of the school is getting excited for Ivies, we can get just
as excited for NESCACs. It takes a
special kind of person to know that
theyll miss out on a huge campus
wide event, but I think the team does
a good job of being fully present and
competes at the best of their ability.
For the members of the track team,
it is made clear from the beginning of
the season that they will not be able to
participate in Ivies.
Ivies is a great state of mind for

campus, but we realize that we wont

get to participate in the Saturday concert and cant drink leading up to it,
added Genco.
Mettler Growney 17 of
the womens lacrosse team
shared similar feelings
as Genco about the
spring festival.
Its hard when everyone on campus is
talking about Ivies,
the concert and
their plans when
you have a huge
playoff game right
in the middle of
that, she said.
The
lacrosse
team did a really
good job putting
Ivies out of it
and focusing on
lacrosse, playing
and winning the
game, and then going to attend Ivies
and having fun.
Carolina
Deifelt Streese 16, a
resident of Howell
House, organized a
number of chem free
events during Ivies
weekend. Howell spon-

sored a trip to Popham Beach and

a movie on Friday, and a breakfast

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

food Super Snack on Saturday night.

Howell tries to have events during
Ivies for people who dont necessarily
want to go and drink, but still want to
go and do things and participate in
the weekend, she said.
Some chem free students do
attend the typical Ivies events.
I make an effort to attend the events, said Grace
McKenzie-Smith 17. I
went to the Thursday night concert
and Brunswick
Quad this
year
and
last year I
went to both
of
those
things and
also made
it to the big
concert.
This year I
didnt like the
bands playing.
However,
Mc Ke n z i e Smith said that
it can be hard
as a chem free
student during the
Ivies weekend.
For myself and

other people who are chem-free

and just feel uncomfortable around
people who are drunk, its very isolating, she said.
Members of the womens lacrosse
team, who played at home Saturday
morning, went to Brunswick Quad on
Friday to be with friends though they
did not drink. They were also able to
attend the concert on Saturday once
theyd won their game.
In my eyes, that didnt change
anything, said Growney. I had so
much fun. My friends who did drink
said they had so much fun with me. It
didnt stop the lacrosse girls from being themselves and having fun even
though we had practice right after.
Although many cannot participate
in the traditional Ivies, there are other
Student Activities sponsored events
throughout the year for Bowdoin students to participate in such as Spring
Gala, Junior-Senior Ball and concerts
and shows such as the Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company.
McKenzie-Smith said that she
generally enjoys Spring Gala more
than Ivies.
I feel like the focus is much less
on drinking, she said Ivies, I have
no choice. I have to be surrounded by
alcohol.
Hy Khong and Nicole Wetsman contributed to this report.

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FOOD

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8

may be guilty of complicity with
many of these practices. PFG supplies antibiotic and hormone free
meat but it is unclear how much of
it Bowdoin buys.
I think a lot of the products we purchase are antibiotic free, said Caiazzo.
Caiazzo was unable to provide
the Orient with any data about
which and how many products are
free of the drugs.
With respect to chicken, Bowdoin
may soon benefit from shifts by
some of the markets biggest players.
McDonalds recently announced that
it will begin to limit antibiotics in its
chicken over the next two years.
[McDonalds] is changing the
industry, because they have such
tremendous buying power and
thats good for us, said Cardone.
One of the most difficult aspects
of sourcing is deciding which factors are important and balancing
costs. Almost any alternative to the
industrial food system comes at a
higher cost.
A primary benefit of organic
farming is that for crops, organic
certification places limits on the
use of potentially harmful synthetic fertilizer and pesticides.
However, many chemicals can still
be used, as long as theyve been
deemed essential, by the USDA.
According to Cardone, Bowdoin
occasionally buys organic foods,
but they are not a priority. The
PFG order guide shows an availability of some organic produce
but not a significant amount.
Organic isnt on top of the
listlocals on top of the list, said
Cardone. Some products that we
buy are organic but thats not what
were focusing on, were focusing
on local.
Buying locally produced food
has become one of the most wellknown and effective ways to avoid
the external costs of the industrial
food system. According to the
Bowdoin Dining Services website,
Bowdoin sources approximately
34 percent of food purchases from
local vendors. Caiazzo said this
percentage is calculated as a percentage of the dining services budget. The primary items included in
this calculation are ground beef,
milk, some seafood, apples, tomatoes and some produce.
However, buying locally in
Maine is not easy.
You always want to be able to
plan to use more local food as it
becomes available, said Cardone.
The issue in Maine is that its very
seasonal, so you need the ability to
process and store [food].
The local food economy in
Maine is not large or diverse
enough to support Bowdoin entirely. Many farms are simply too
small. Even if a farmer is able to
produce enough livestock to satisfy Bowdoins high demand, all
of that meat has to be processed.
While meat production in Maine
has increased, a lack of meat processing facilities in the region has
hindered significant growth of the
market. According to Cardone,
some producers in Maine have
shipped their cattle out of state to
be processed then shipped back. At
that point, its financial and environmental costs rise dramatically.
Think about the volume, said
Cardone. We used 30,000 chicken
breasts from March to the end of
April. Think about the state of Maine
and these small farms that produce
poultry and pork. Theyre raising 15
hogsits just not there yet.

Farm size, the short growing

season and greater cost are the
three biggest obstacles to local
sourcing in Maine.
A lot of it depends on the season, a lot if it is market driven,
Cardone said. If we get an opportunity to jump on something, we
watch it closely; were going to do
that. You have to.
Caiazzo said that in the future,
he hopes to work with local farms
before the growing season so that
farms can match their production to
Bowdoins needs and specifications.
[We hope to] look at ways we
can work with local growers and
farmers to help grow their businesses, he said. Because they
need to scale up to be able to provide to us at a reasonable cost and
if we dont do anything about it,
theyll never hit that next scale.
Bowdoin currently freezes some
local produce at its peak availability and lowest cost in the summertime, but Caiazzo hopes to do more
of this in the future. This could
significantly increase the amount
of local produce and even seafood
that Bowdoin uses, however Dining
is limited by a lack of freezer space.
There isnt a food service that I
know that food storage isnt an issue, said Cardone.
Dining is also faced with the difficulty of what to do when student
tastes and ethics collide. For example, bananas are Bowdoins most
popular fruit, with Dining bringing in around 51,000 pounds every
year. However, Bowdoin Amnesty
has recently been bringing discussion of the problems surrounding
the harvesting of bananas in South
and Central America to campus.
Caiazzo confirmed that Bowdoins
bananas are from that area. Cardone said it would be very difficult
to stop offering the fruit because of
its popularity.
Its a matter of educating your
customer base, he said. Eat an
apple, eat a pear. Theyre local. Its
a juggle and its a balancing act.
Despite the difficulty and complexity, Cardone said that Dining works
hard to stay responsive to students
requests and current food trends.
Its a changing landscape, he
said. What we did last year doesnt
work this year and what were doing this year wont work next year.
You cant sit on your laurels.
Student opinion and conviction
about sourcing ranges, but many
seem to be aware of local and organic foods in Bowdoins dining
halls. However, at the end of the
day, everyone has to eat.
I always pay close attention to
when it is local or organic, said Alice
Jones 17. But it doesnt necessarily
mean Im more inclined to eat it.
[I] wish we knew more about
where we get meat and things like
that, said Kayla Kaufman 18.
What could be cool is a little
bit more transparency or a little bit
more knowledge of sneaky things
that have huge carbon footprints,
said Clare McLaughlin 15. For
example, things like almonds are
just not good for the environment
but we dont think about that and
no one talks about that and its not
advertised.
McLaughlin added that she
thinks sourcing could be more
sustainable if Dining used its resources more effectively.
I think you could decrease the
extravagance on some things to
make other things more sustainable, she said.
Bowdoin Dinings massive operation is one of the most wellknown aspects of the College, and
making food on such a large scale
is no easy task.

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TALK OF THE QUAD

I applied to Bowdoin for two
reasons: The College had accepted
my best friend early decision, and
the Office of Admissions had sent
me a glossy brochure, inside of
which was one photo in particular
that appealed to the romantic idealism of my 17-year-old self.
The photo showed a group
of Bowdoin boys, bundled in
brightly colored winter jackets as
they played pickup hockey on the
Quad. Hubbard Hall, framed by a
row of trees and bathed in the light
of a winter sunset, loomed in the
background.
For me, the photo wasand
remainsa more generous offer
than William DeWitt Hydes Offer of the College. It offered me
a myth of Bowdoin, the myth of a
place where the past bled into the
present, a place where I could participate in academic toil one day
and tomfoolery the next, a place
with a literary quality that I'll never be able to describe.
Daily life at the College cant possibly live up to this myth. During
a hectic day of quizzes, 100-page
readings, club meetings, essays and
internship applications, its impos-

WHAT YOURE
WORKING FOR

What is a year? A year is what it takes

for you to go a long way and end up
back where you started, changed. It has
been a year. It is spring.
Last year, 2014, was the first I can recall without a May. The month passed
silentlyno milestone, no ceremony.
But my sophomore year in New York
City feels surprisingly sophomoric.
There is an eerie rhythm and consonance plucked from the cacophony.
Two years out, you begin to forget.
Coming to understand something in
practice can destroy your ability to explain it, so as postgrad life normalizes it
becomes indescribable.
To write another sappy reminiscence
for the college paper is in some sense
an admission of defeat: have I learned
nothing? Let it go! So, well circle back to
the big life questions, but first I just want
to touch base about learning to love
your employer. Soon-to-be grads may
initially chafe; I sure did! But I have tried
to empathize with the corporation, and
would like to share with you a few handy
tips (which, like much advice dispensed,
is largely a catalogue of my failures).
One. Although the language of the
office sounds very familiar, it is more
useful to treat it as a distinct derivative.
The Standard Written English you have
been taught in the classroom is not actually the dominant dialect of late capitalism. Corporatese has all the artfulness
of an electrical signal between neurons,

sible to remain conscious of

everything that life at Bowdoin
means. At the end of that sort of
busy day, I trudge home across
the Quad, my head down, already scheduling myself for a
frantic tomorrow.
When I look back at
Bowdoin, I wont remember
those days. Ill remember my
four years at Bowdoin for those
rare moments when the myth
overcame the mundane
those moments when I
lived the myth.
Ill remember a Saturday in January of
my sophomore year
when two friends
and I set out to convert Reed Houses
backyard into an
ice rink.
We ran garden hoses from
Reeds
basement
bathroom up the
stairs, out a
window, and
across
the
yard. None
of us had any
rink-making
experience
(and we were
because that is roughly what it is. When
a manager says Are we all happy with
this?, the literal meaning of those phonemes in that language is closer to Can
we end this meeting?, to which the answer should always be a resounding yes.
Two. Meetings expand to fill available time and space, so maintain a high
quotient of people who dont want to
be there. If they evaporate away like energetic particles from hot tea, the temperature in the room will drop and the
proceedings will slow.
The meat is not in the
meeting; it is a set-up
for more substantive conversations to
come.
Three. Insofar as
industrial society is
a doomed experiment and a joke, your
managers are in on
the joke. The good
ones, anyway, are fully
aware of all the profound problematicals.
The libarts intellectual
colliding with reality
exudes feckless impotence: totally correct
and still at a loss for
what to do. The good
manager is a step
ahead of you, not behind. They have
learned that a fish always thinking of
water is apt to hyperventilate.
Four. Workplace commiseration
is a bonding agent used by the status quo to deaden you; complaining
about your company is not nearly
as subversive as mirthfully running
circles around it. Some of the most
habitual complainers are among the
most co-opted tools of the
system. Resist assimilation not by negative dis-

all humanities majors), so we

expected the process would
only take a few minutes. We
thought it would be as simple as spraying some water,
watching it freeze, and grabbing some skates.
It quickly became clear
that we wouldnt be skating
for hours, so we descended
into the basement and ratcheted up the water pressure by
turning on the hot water. The
three of us spent the rest of
the afternoon drinking beers,
watching Its Always Sunny
in Philadelphia and intermittently checking on the glacial
progress of the rink. Just before dinner, a towel-clad Reed
resident burst into our room
and informed us with polite
anger that there was no hot
water in our 28-person House.
And when the hot water returned 36 hours later, the rink
was still hardly more than a
soggy lawn.
Ill remember reading Nathaniel Hawthornes The
Blithedale Romance in the
very same Massachusetts Hall
in which Hawthorne studied.
Ill remember poring through
Tales from Bowdoin, a 1901
book described as some gath-

ered fragments and fancies of undergraduate life in the past and

present told by Bowdoin men.
Lounging on the windowsill in
the Shannon Room, Id put the
book down from time to time and
looked out on the Quad, imagining the Bowdoin men of the 19th
century mischievously sneaking
toward the Chapel under the cover
of darkness.
But most of all, Ill remember
late nights at the Orient House
when, after 13 hours of work, we
clustered around a computer and
collaborated on the final and most
important part of the production
process: conjuring up a suitably
clever name for the editorial. We
would spend all night considering
Bowdoins purpose and its policies,
and it all culminated in this predawn moment when every joke
was hilarious and no suggestion
was too terrible to consider.
At the end of those nights,
I strolled across the Quad and
stopped at its center to gaze up at
Hubbard Hall, which often looked
as if it had been superimposed in
front of the stars. And in those brief
moments, I knew full well that I was
living the myth of Bowdoin.
Garrett Casey is a member of the
Class of 2015 and a co-editor in
chief of The Orient.

buy the freedom to shape and tend to a

life. You can model some of your landscaping on the world President Mills
has overseen. Nouns for things youve
attended will become verbs to perform:
you must orient, you must convoke, you
must commence. The curricle (thats a
chariot) will run off the curriculum (a
racecourse, originally) unless you lay
one down. The most satisfying things
in my life today are nascent frameworks
for sustaining events and people: peer
meetups, apartment lecture series, book clubs,
workday morning soccer.
It wont be
the same. Noncommittal diversification
gives way to
smart concentrated bets; as
Stanley Druckenmiller says,
put all your
eggs in one basket and watch
the basket very
carefully. Like
holding cash,
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
holding your
time totally liqossification.
uid is expensive. So people begin to
Seven. Take professors, not classsettle where they liewith careers,
esso choose your bosses and coand with people.
workers. If you are lucky, you will get to
As they do, and as our time in Brunsdo good work with idols. But you may
wick gets harder to recapture, it feels unalso realize that even those who give off
fair that the blessings of life are so frontthe most light and heat offer no salvaloaded; the young have so much already,
tion. You may notice a new kind of hero,
and on top of that we give them college?
quiet and content. What do you really
There arent many kids around in
want? It itches.
Manhattan, but when you see the gaggle
For all that, youll go from paying
of giggling schoolchildren erupt against
to earning; by selling
your daily labor, you

the backdrop of the two hundredth gray

commute by 2nd Ave. sidewalk or subway car, you begin to get a hint, a sneaking suspicion. They look happy. If you
cant recapture, can you recapitulate?
Why do you exist?
Of the many humbling realizations of young adulthood, none is so
serious as that you were not made
for your own sake. On the horizon,
the circle closes. Have you not gotten
enough college? Good! Thats why you
got any. Bowdoin plants the yearning
for Bowdoin, and you are begotten
of yearning; if we were sated it would
cease. A satisfied life is sterile.
Your youth was a gift to you, but
also an escape and a rebellion for your
parents; work pays for and provokes rebirth, the first job. All of you are graduating with a tremendous outstanding
debt: to create, to understand your creation, and thus to redeem. Forge dense
new stars.
The past has the air of necessity,
for it must have gone just so to lead
to you. But as it unfolds you come to
see the now-necessary past as a oncecontingent future: it just as well could
have been otherwise. Constants in
your life turn variable; people come
in and out like planks in the ship of
Theseus, so that by the end nothing
original remains except, somehow,
identitywhich finally dissolves triumphant into the memories of those
who owe you everything.
Your parents need you. Hug them at
graduation, or their parents, or whomever lives. Tell them what fun youve
had. Theyve worked hard
for you, and the best years
of your life brighten theirs.
Toph Tucker is a member
of the Class of 2012.

DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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plays of protest, but by positive displays of humanity.

Five. The corporation is glacial: slow,
but massive. If you only watch the speed,
you wont appreciate how it carves the
territory beneath. Use its momentum
while you dance in the crevasses.
Six. In a healthy relationship, you
should be using the corporation, just
as it is using you. If the relationship is
abusive, not only will you be miserable,
but the corporation will suffer endemic

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Securitys Allen Daniels relishes time at Bowdoin

BEHIND THE NAME TAG
BY KELSEY SCARLETT

Working as a security officer on

a college campus isnt for everyone,
but Security Officer Allen Daniels
says working at Bowdoin makes
his job easy.
Its the students. I wouldnt do
this job for any other collegeI cant
imagine it, said Daniels. I genuinely appreciate the students here.
I love my conversations with them.
They make my job very, very easy.
Born and raised in southern
New Hampshire, Daniels graduated high school and enlisted in
the Army. For four years, he was a
part of the third U.S. Infantry Regiment, a unit commonly known as
the Old Guard.
In the Old Guard, we do all the
ceremonies and funerals in Arlington National Cemeterywe do all
the simple and full honor funerals, said Daniels. Were also the
official escort to the president. We
are kind of a ceremonial postwe
do have training, but we dont have
a wartime mission, only to honor
the fallen.
After his time in the army,
Daniels lived in Washington D.C.
to gain his city experience and
then went on to graduate from
Plymouth State University in New
Hampshire. Eventually, he settled
in Maine with his girlfriend (now
wife), applied for a job at Bowdoin,
and was given the position six
months later.
I come to work pretty happy
every day, and leave happy every
day. The hardest part of my job
is seeing people make poor decisions, and I do see people at their
worstI dont often get to see
them at their best, just because
Im usually here during the night
time, said Daniels.
Last weekend, Daniels and the
rest of the security staff prepared
for Ivies. Security was given post
assignments a week ahead of time.
Security was out in full force, stationing as many officers as possible at each event.
We [aim to] guide things,

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WYLIE MAO, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

SAFE AND SOUND: Security Ocer Allen Daniels favorite part of his job is interacting with students.
Outside of work, he enjoys running, skiing, disk golf and spending time with his newborn daughter.
rather than manipulate whats happening. It goes back to what I said
previously, I wouldnt want to do
this at another school, said Daniels. So even this big weekend, our
stress level does go up, but mostly
because of long hours. The stuff we
deal withespecially this Iviesis
really not that much. We had two
transports, and other than that it
was well-controlled chaos. Its just
planning.
In his opinion, the weekend
went smoothly, and contrary to
popular belief, the real trouble did
not stem from Bowdoin students.
Rather, visitors of students and
town residents caused the brunt of
the problems during the weekend.
The drinking gets a lot of publicity, but comparatively speaking,
its really well-contained, said Daniels. I think the policies here, the
ResLife office, and the Deans office do a good job. It helps to make

sure that everyone has a really good

time and is safe doing so.
Outside of Bowdoin, Daniels
runs and plays disc golf, but the
majority of his time is spent skiing and taking care of his newborn
daughter.
Her name is Evelyn Winter.
Evelyn is my wifes grandmothers
name. Winter is because I love
winterthe deeper the snow the
better... I live to ski and for sliding
on snow. My first job was at a ski
shop, waxing skis, and Ive done
just about every job on the mountain, and I have loved all of them.
Daniels lives in Phippsburg,
close to Brunswick, but will always call southern New Hampshire home. Although he misses
his mountains and their peaks, he
always looks on the brighter side.
I joke with my wife that if I
cant live in the mountains, the
beach isnt a bad place to be.

KOREAN
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8

to top it off, it was a powerhouse dish

unlike anything I had experienced from
Bowdoin Dining beforeor since.
Though it admittedly took me a few
weeks to reign in my overzealous dousing of soy and spicy sauces, the culinary
synergy between Julian and Max Miao
17 made for an unparalleled eating experience every time.
The display stations foray into fusion
was a high-risk, high-reward strategy. It
was clear that the masterminds behind
the counter meant business when I approached the table to see them personally assembling and doling out what is
arguably the single trendiest street food
item in these United States: the Korean
taco. Fortunately, I had dealt with my
initial trepidations surrounding this
Mexican-Korean amalgam on a fateful
day when the famed Korilla BBQ truck
arrived on my Manhattan block some
summers ago. Call them gimmicky, call
them hipster chow, call them whatever
you want; the simple fact is that Korean
tacos are a delicious idea if done right.
The hands-on labor of love behind the
counter at Moulton pays off, because
these tacos are on par with anything that
you could buy (or not) from a sleeve-tattooed street vendor in one of Americas
foodie cities.
Finally, theres the newcomer: a scallion pancake known as Pajeon. This
again demonstrated Bowdoin Dinings

admirable desire to break new ground

in Brunswick. Sure, there are probably a few decent scallion pancake options at our local Chinese-American
institutions, but this Pajeon delivered
a distinctly Korean take on texture and
composition. Complemented by the
requisite kimchi, sprouts, cucumbers
and a fluffy bed of spicy-soy-soaked rice,
the chewy pancake brought savory bits
of spring onion flavor with every bite. I
only lament that I may not have enough
time to perfect my fixins-to-pancake ratio before the semester comes to a close.
The column known as Ben Aptit
has been all over the place. I have traveled reasonably far and relatively wide
in search of gustatory goodness, all the
while attempting to maintain a reasonable expectation of where people are
willing to eat and what they are willing
to pay.
In some moments, minor existential
crises have plagued me, begging the
question of legitimacy and inaccessibility in the realm of food writing. When I
can remember how incredibly lucky we
are to have such amazing eating options
just one meal swipe away, it reminds me
why writing a nitpicky column with a
downright silly name is so rewarding. So
thank you, reader, for accompanying me
on this absurd journey through the culinary wilds of Midcoast Maine. Perhaps
we will meet again someday, or maybe
another quixotic eater will take up the
mantle. No matter what happens, I will
be around, I will be hungry, and I would
love to get a meal some time.

COURTESY OF BEN MILLER

HOME COOKING: The display station at Moulton oers dierent Korean-inspired foods every
Tuesday and is a big hit with students.

Final thoughts: style advice for your wardrobe and your life
348 AND
MAINE STREET
EVAN HORWITZ
This is it, kids. I have nothing all
that clever to say to you underclassmen as you greet the summer, or to
us seniors as we face the abyss. There
is the temptation to use my space
here to say something important and
profound, but Ill try not to.
The only thing I have to say, really,
my final piece of style advice, after
these years of tremendously dubious
pieces of style advice, is this: Make an
effort, but dont worry too much.
It sounds like Im trying to confer
upon you some advice for life more
than advice for style. Maybe I am.
Maybe theyre the same thing.
Ive missed too many things worrying about how I look. Dont do
that to yourself. If you have time left
at this place, really be here with the
people around youdespite its flaws,
Bowdoin can be truly extraordinary.
If youre about to go into the world,
theres too much else that matters
more than small vanities.

And for all of us, I have hopes. Before

you stop reading as I veer dangerously
close to preaching, know that these are
very small, very modest
style hopes. Here is what I
hope for your style:
I hope you dress in colors. I hope your clothes
are too loud. I hope you
dress in black. I hope your
clothes are the coolest.
I hope you wear an
astronaut suit in space. I
hope you wear a scuba suit
deep in the sea. I hope you
get a dramatic haircut.
I hope you dont go
broke spending money
on clothes. I hope you
buy yourself a stupidly
extravagant
accessory
for no reason. I hope you
buy something for an unbelievable sale price.
I hope you are comfortable in your clothes.
I hope you realize that
comfort is not always everything.
I hope you push the boundaries of
your style. I hope you try things on
before you reject them.

I hope you own a pair of shoes that

make you feel invincible. I hope you
own a pair of sunglasses that let you be

work. I hope you underdress obscenely for a casual Friday.

I hope Bill Cunningham photo-

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

invisible. I hope you dance in an enormous tutu. I hope you dress up for a
grand ball.
I hope you never wear shorts to

graphs you. I hope Anna Wintour declares you a style icon. I hope theres an
exhibit about you at the Metropolitan
Museum of Arts Costume Institute.

I hope you have to unbutton your

pants after an extraordinary meal.
I hope you wear a fantastic hat on
a train. I hope you wear a uniform
that doesnt belong to you.
I hope you change 12 times in one
day. I hope you wear the same thing
for a week straight. I hope you try
hard to pull something off and fail
miserably. I hope you pull something
off you never thought you could.
I hope you wear something that
saves your life. I hope you wear
something that nearly kills you.
I hope you offend everyone with
something you wear. I hope you die
wearing something you love.
I hope you have a signature style.
I hope your clothes can take you
anywhere. I hope you ruin your
favorite outfit because you had too
much fun in it. I hope your clothes
become a record of your life.
I hope you wash your clothes
regularly. I hope you own something you never wash. I hope you
take something from the dry cleaners that isnt yours and keep it.
I hope these things for myself, too.
Lets hope we can have everything
we hope for. Thanks for reading.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Senior visual arts majors debut pieces after semester of hard work
BY GABY PAPPER
ORIENT STAFF

Senior visual arts majors presented

their final work at the Senior Studio
exhibition opening in the Robert H.
and Blythe Bickel Edwards Center for
Art and Dance last night. The exhibit
is the culmination of the seniors artistic work at Bowdoin. Senior Studio
is a semester course offered by Assistant Professor of Art Carrie Scanga
in the spring for senior visual art
majorswith the exception of occasional juniors who will be unable to
schedule it during their senior spring
semesters. The studio gives advanced
art students the opportunity to work
on substantial final projects in a collaborative environment.
Senior Studio is based in one of the
larger rooms in Edwards. Students
have their own sectioned off space to
work in, but also benefit from being
surrounded by the other visual arts
majors in the class.
Art is very independent in some
ways, but one of the benefits of having other students and other artists
around is that we can critique each
others work and get feedback, said
Anna Reyes, a senior in the class. We
are able to wander around and see what
other people are working on and pick
up on how they view things differently
and practices. Some people do multiple
iterations of one idea, whereas others
choose to explore different ideas.
Senior Studio enables visual arts majors accustomed to specializing in one
area of art to come together and experiment with new artistic mediums.
Its inspirational to be around so
many different people working in dif-

KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

HANG IN THERE: Seniors Sarah Haimes (left) and Molly Rider hang Riders work in preparation for the Senior Studio show that opened last night.
ferent mediums. said Sarah Haimes
15. It has motivated me to incorporate other mediums. I incorporated
photography, painting and sculpture
into my final pieces, which I never
thought I would do. It was really
helpful to have the opportunity to
run ideas by people who had experiences with different mediums.
There are also critiques throughout
the semester by visual arts faculty and
outside artists; artists also come in to

speak to students about continuing with

careers in art. The freedom and flexibility of the studio lets students develop
the projects according to their own
artistic style. While some students use
Senior Studio to experiment with new
mediums, other students use it to continue past projects.
I got the idea of continuing on with
one idea in terms of the material used
from one of my sculpture classes last
semester. I was working on a large, cro-

cheted fabric sculpture. Ive always loved

fiber and fabrics and think thats a fruitful material to work with, said Reyes.
Last semester, that was my final project and I wanted more time to work on
it. I had an idea of the materials I wanted to use and the process I wanted to
explore based on last semesters work.
Haimes decided to combine new mediums for her final project. Although
primarily a photographer, she was able
to experiment in the studio.

My final project is these three dimensional photo collages, and I ended

up going into the woodshop, which I
had never done before. It was a nice
way to challenge myself before I graduate, said Haimes.
All the students in Senior Studio have
dedicated a significant amount of their
time at Bowdoin to their art. The exhibit
showcases their final projects and dedication to their work. Scanga described
the preparation for the exhibit as a collaborative process.
Putting together a group show
requires teamwork, patience and a
willingness to collaborate even when
your creative vision is at stake. The
seniors pulled together to lay out the
exhibition, supported each other in
the installation process, and negotiated the design of posters and publicity materials, she said.
Both Scanga and the artists view the
Senior Studio exhibition as a final opportunity to showcase their work in
front of the Bowdoin community.
I expect that viewers will enjoy
considering the wide range of media and ideas present in this exhibition, said Scanga. Im thrilled for
the seniors. Theyve worked hard this
semester, and the reception on Thursday is their opportunity to see how the
work is received by their community.
I think the turnout for the Senior
Show is usually pretty good, which
is gratifying because professors, staff
and students want to see our work,
said Reyes. I enjoy making art
and love doing it for myself. I hope
other people enjoy my work, but its
also about having that sense of accomplishment and knowing I made
something that really matters to me.

Museum to feature place-inspired work by photographer Morell 71

BY BRIDGET WENT
ORIENT STAFF

Celebrated contemporary photographer Abelardo Morell 71 will

showcase his latest photography
project, A Mind Of Winter, at the
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
beginning Tuesday. In conjunction
with the opening, Morell will deliver
a talk in Kresge Auditorium followed by an open house and further
discussion at the Museum.
Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the exhibition
explores the theme of winter and
climate change through a series of
photographs taken at various sites
in Maine during this past winter.
The one-gallery installation includes 12 photographs focusing on
unique aspects of a Maine winter.
The title for the exhibit was inspired by a line in Wallace Stevens
poem The Snow Man, which alludes to a metaphorical mindset of
winter.
Morells artwork takes on myriad
forms and techniques ranging from
photographic illustration to camera
obscura. A Mind of Winter represents Morells first extended visit
to Maine since his graduation from
Bowdoin in 1977.
Its been exciting to come back
to Bowdoin for this project as there
are so many of my early experiences rooted here, Morell wrote in an
email to the Orient.
Anne and Frank Goodyear,

PHOTO COURTESY OF JILLIAN FREYER

THE SNOW MAN: Abelardo Morell 71 spent time in the Maine wild for his upcoming photography
exhibition. He will speak about this project next Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium.
the co-directors of the Museum,
worked closely with Morell to creatively document a Maine winter in
all its complexity.

We thought that Abe, who is very

interested in the tradition of landscape representation, might be up
for the challenge of creating a new

body of photographs that would

relate to the theme of winter, said
Frank Goodyear.
A member of Bowdoins Class
of 1971, Morell received an MFA
from the Yale University School of
Art in 1981 and received an honorary degree from Bowdoin in 1997.
Morell was the subject of a 2013
career retrospective organized by
the Art Institute of Chicago, which
traveled to museums across the
nation, including the Getty in Los
Angeles. His work has also won
numerous awards, including the
Infinity Award in Art given by the
International Center of Photography in 2011.
Morell collaborated with Nevan
Swanson 18, who scouted locations
and accompanied Morell during his
series of visits to Maine, beginning
in January. Though winter can be a
picturesque time, Frank Goodyear
explained, the challenge is capturing
the nuances that wouldnt appear on
a calendar.
Winter is hard to photograph. It
has such a minimal graphic beauty
that the temptation is to make simplistic pictures rather than eloquent
ones, Morell wrote. I hope that I
succeeded in avoiding the trap of
clichs.
Owing to his passion for art
history, Morells photographs are
filled with homages to AmericanEuropean and Asian artistic traditions. Morell said he drew inspiration from Pieter Bruegels painting

Hunters in the Snow when setting up his landscape photographs.

Several of Morells photographs
are done using clich verrea
technique in which a sheet of glass
is inked over before the photograph is developed onto the same
surface. The balance between positive and negative space takes on
new form in this technique, Anne
Goodyear explained.
One of the things that is so exciting for us about [Morell] is that he
is somebody who loves playing with
the essential elements of photography as a medium itself, she said.
Some of Morells photographs manipulate the viewers perception of
the scenery, creating a virtual play between the figurative and the abstract.
Hes always doing these creative
interventions in the landscape, said
Frank Goodyear. Oftentimes hes
creating new landscapes by inserting
mirrors into the landscapes.
Theres a wonderful way in which
[Morell] asks the viewer to step up
to the plate and to become an active
participant in the process of...playing intellectually with the question of
whats going on [in the picture], added Anne Goodyear. There is a metaphorical dialogue with the nature of
the winter season itself, and whats
covered and whats uncovered.
A Mind of Winter will be exhibited from May 5 through September 27 in the Shaw Ruddock
Gallery at the Bowdoin College
Museum of Art.

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a&e

The Yik Yak Live experiment:

anonymity in Smith Union
BY CARLY BERLIN AND TESSA WESTFALL
CONTRIBUTORS

If you were moseying by Bowdoin

Express, known to students as the Cstore, on Monday evening, you may
have seen two delirious short-haired
gals wearing blindfolds and soliciting
your participation in our latest project:
Yik Yak Live. But we did not see you.
With our first undertaking a few
weeks ago, we recreated Marina
Abromovis performance art piece,
The Artist is Present, and held sustained eye contact with willing participants in the Union. We sought
to explore vulnerability within the
student body at Bowdoin. This time,
without realizing it, we were drawn
back to the idea of sensory alteration
as a means to explore larger ideas.
Now, we are considering accountability and anonymity.
We all know this about Bowdoin:
an unfamiliar face is hard to come by
(unless youre Tessa at a hockey party). Anonymity is nearly unattainable
here. So, we seek to hide. On apps
like Friendsy and Yik Yak, ambiguity is the game. We get to spew our
hormonal woes, our feelings of inadequacy and the political opinions
we dont feel comfortable expressing
in public. Its like yelling into a tunnelanyone, or no one, could be on
the other end. We were curious to see
what happens when the invisibility
becomes one-sided.

Ive made out with 3 percent of

Bowdoin College.
Some Yaks treaded into weightier
territory:
Is the gay/lesb community really
small, or can I just not pull?
People really overestimate how accepting Bowdoin is.
Confession: Im male, I have pretty
terrible body image issues, and I dont
feel comfortable addressing them w/
anyone. I dont think its something
people feel comfortable talking about/
helping with.
Lest we forget, Carly and Tessa sat
blindfolded in the Union for a full
hour on a Monday, not doing anything ostensibly productive. There has
been little research on the results of
placing college students, completely
unoccupied and unable to fully engage with their peers, in a space for an
extended period of time. We entered a
fugue state. By obscuring our vision,
we also seemed to obscure our understanding of all behavioral norms. Volume control? Disappeared. Conceptions of time? Gone. Ability to form
sentences? Dissolved.
Do you guys feel vulnerable?
asked an unidentifiable voice.
We did. It can be exasperating when
mysterious forces drag baby carrots
across your face or attempt to disguise
themselves by impersonating others.
But maybe there was some power in
our voluntary impairment. In partially
detaching ourselves from our envi-

PHOTO COURTESY OF DAISY WISLAR

I CANT SEE CLEARLY NOW: First years Carly Berlin (left) and Tessa Westfall provide students with the
veil of anonymity in a simulated interactive Yik Yak experience in Smith Union.
Our high production value sign
read: YIK YAK LIVE: What will you
write when you can see us but we cant
see you? We encouraged passersby to
write down yaks in real time on slips
of paper and place them in a container
under the table. The sign also boasted
some anxiously scribbled prompts:
Thoughts? Confessions? Ideas? Mean
Commentary?
I want to see how mean people will
be, Tessa said, while Carly broke a
nervous sweat.
Again, we feared no one would
participate. Butwho knew!people
with blindfolds do attract some attention. One Yak we received read, Why
is SJP blindfolded now?
Our responses largely reflected the
general makeup of Bowdoins actual
Yik Yak. We had some lighthearted
admissions:
I have a dead opossum in my
trash (this is true).
I havent taken a normal poop
in 4 days
And of course, I am Kote.
There were musings about life at
Bowdoin:
I wonder if people steal from
the C-store.
In tiny handwriting, in the corner of
a slip: I did all kinds of drugs @ Ivies.

ronment, we accidentally lost our fear

of consequences. Despite being surrounded by people in the Union, we
felt like we were sitting alone in our
rooms in our underwear, irrationally
confident in our perceived solitude.
We wonder now if we felt more anonymous than the writers of our yaks.
Bowdoin students harbor fears about
sounding pretentious, or dumb; too involved, or not involved enough; politically incorrect, or soft. Above all, we fear
revealing ourselves and having someone
say thanks, but no thanks. Yik Yak is a
space where we feel comfortable broadcasting our anxieties and idiosyncrasies.
But does it matter? If we dont own our
weird shit, then whats the point?
Last time, we asked what would happen if people made more eye contact.
Now we wonder about the opposite:
what if we all just sat in a room together, blindfolded? What would we say?
Would this new sense of anonymity allow us to shimmy out of our inhibited
selves, or would we just find this another
way to hide?
It turns out that we got far more positive than mean Yaks. Well end with our
personal favorite:
I wish more people unabashedly
shared how much they appreciate one
another. Thats what love is.

Radiohead running through his head

HIPSTER DRIVEL
MATTHEW GOODRICH
I was on the prowl for pasties in
Oxford's indoor market. The Office
of Off-Campus Study will tell you
it's the intensive tutorial system
that lures Bowdoin students into
spending Michaelmas at the world's
oldest university. I'll tell you it's the
cheese-filled balls of dough whose
stench is heady enough to convince
tourists to languish in queues for
the whiff.
In one such queue, I jostled a
gentleman striding bythe height
of poor comportment in a country where etiquette is sovereign.
'Scuse me, I tried to dither out in
my best Oxonian-American, before the impish figure in a bowler
hat and trench coat knocked the
words straight back down my gullet to mingle with esophageal perfection. I, a bumbling foreigner,
had backed into Thom Yorke, resident of Oxford and frontman of
Radiohead.

high school could have been outpaced by an evolutionarily stunted

prokaryote. Radiohead challenges,
and I didn't like to be challenged.
Radiohead also rewards, and I
thought the reward was overstated.
To be fair, one of the first reviews
of the band's seminal 2000 record
Kid A, which houses Idioteque,
described hearing the music as
witnessing the stillborn birth of a
child while simultaneously having
the opportunity to see her play in
the afterlife on IMAX.
My thinking is that listening to
Radioheada band bigger than
the band bigger than Jesusfor
the first time is like losing your
virginity to your best friend in the
back of your brother's jalopy on
the eve of graduation. Which is to
say: uncomfortable, exciting, terrifying, and world-historical. The
bleating squalls of Idioteque were
the sounds of evocative fiction, the
kind that provoked the dismissive
hm I gave Christopher only to
guide me to study abroad in Oxford
in search of the music's authors.
Radiohead shouldn't exist. They
rocketed to fame on the same
combustive consumption of
American self-loathing that fired

DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT Kurt Cobain's

shotgun. What the hell am I doing
My friend Christopher introduced
here? misbegotten Yorke pleaded
me to Radiohead in tenth grade. I
in 1992, after Jonny Greenwood's
must have said something morose,
signature squawk sent the band to
using words I didn't really know to
assured one-hit-wonder-dom with
describe feelings I didn't really feel.
Creep. Radiohead's debut Pablo
He must have wanted to channel my
Honey is not good, but only bepubescence out of English class rants
cause it caters to the lowest comabout Sartrean nausea and into the
mon denominator of disaffected
private realm of Radiohead, lords of
asshole-aesthetes. When they besob. In the computer lab we logged
came uncompromising in 1995
into Windows XP. I pulled up 2009with The Bends, they apotheoera YouTube. He pulled out 2009-era
sized as guitar heroes who could
earphones. Listen to 'Idioteque.'
will modern alienation into tranYou'll like it. I didn't.
scendent celebration. When they
I've forgiven myself, and not simheralded technological apocalypse
ply because my music taste in early
with 1997's OK Computer, they

became nothing short of prophets.

Where does the best band in the
world go after releasing the best
album of the decade? They enter a
new decade and do it again. I'm too
young to remember Y2K, the residual paranoia from Damocles' ballistic missiles, but I imagine Kid
A disintegrating into the desperation of a billion electrons. Which
is what happened to the chimerical album-as-artdiced into compressed data, scrambled into .mp3s,
teleported from servers to earbuds,
first through Napster and now
through Spotify. What if the best
album of all time was also the last,
arriving on vinyl already vestigial, on compact discs
already discarded? Kid A
issues soothsayings, autopsies, and
elegies for
the same
humanity that
died in
its creation,
at the

incipience of the wireless age.

Dylan went electric in 1965, but
Radiohead went digital in 2000.
I didn't know anything about the
band's history, let alone the history
of Musical Statements, but I did
know that after a night of gallivanting with friends, I had to clamber,
boozed and bloodshot, under my
sheets to let the descending resolution of Everything In Its Right
Place wash over me. The notes
collapsed into each other while I
soared into the barren soundscapes

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Student project takes on sexual assault through theater

ZACH ALBERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

LIBERAL ARTS: James Jelin 16 directs Quincy Koster 15 and Maggie Seymour 16 in a rehearsal for Blackout. The play, Jelins independent study project
this semester, will be performed on Sunday at 7 p.m. in Memorial Hall.
BY LOUISA MOORE
ORIENT STAFF

This semester, James Jelin 16 has

been writing and directing his own
play, Blackout, for his independent
study. Blackout will debut on Sunday,

May 3 at 7 p.m. in 108 Memorial Hall.

Jelins play focuses on the relationship between two female first years at a
liberal arts college much like Bowdoin.
These women, played by Quincy
Koster 15 and Maggie Seymour 16,
have differing opinions about party-

ing and drinking. Additional roles

are played by Austin Goldsmith 18,
Ben Cumings 15, Taylor Love 16 and
Charlie Campbell-Decock 17.
They both come into the school

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DRIVEL

THEATER

of the title song and The National Album. They're cruel but
compelling, a disaster and a dawn,
stitched from Thom's vocoder
wails and flairs of demented brass.
The lyrics are dense, unintelligible,
and often mundane, like snippets
of conversations dredged from
data trawlers or the concomitant
propaganda that none of this is really happening. But they also suggested a peace beyond the clash of
competing cell lines, ineffable and
effaced. Loss in the era of hyperconnection wasn't a new idea in
2000, but in 2009 it was innovative
to a young student trying to piece
his world together.
Hence why my discovery of Radiohead through the jittery opening of Idioteque on library computers is ironic. The song can't play
by command, summoned from the
depths of the Internet along with
its demons. It unfolds along the
infinity of the record's 48 minutes,
discernible only in fellowship. For
that, Kid A is not unhopeful. Its
beauty persists if we let it, 15 years
later, from the palpitations of surrender of its opening, the cacophony of its uncertainty halfway in,
and the ending requiem to red
wine and sleeping pills.
Because as much as Kid A
seethes of techno-dystopia, it
breathes something else into
life. Maybe it's the memory of
friends like Christopher, to whom
I haven't spoken to in years but
nevertheless I could strike up conversationeven about Sartrean
nauseawith affection. Maybe it's
the pasties wafting from Oxford's
impossible, ancient kitchens. Maybe it's the nights spent in search of
love and refuge with the radio on.
Maybe it's the humanity embedded in digits by design, the link we
have to each other even from our
furthest distances. Maybe it's the
same hope that Thom kindles at
the record's close, whether it turns
out merely true or merely comforting: I will see you in the next life.

and feel a little bit lost, as many of us

do, said Jelin. One of them...starts
drinking a lot and sleeping around.
The other one...isnt really into the
party scene and finds herself a little
bit disgusted with some of the patriarchal stuff shes seeing on campus.
The girls friendship becomes
strained when Kosters character is
sexually assaulted and does not want
to report the incident.
This project stems from Jelins
own interest in womens studies, religion, and feminism. His experiences in Associate Professor of Religion
Elizabeth Pritchards class, Gender,
Body and Religion, inspired him to
put his thoughts down on paper.
When he approached me [for advising], I said sure, said Pritchard.
He knew that I dont write plays, I
dont generally teach that material,
but he wanted a person to read the
material and have some conversations about gender and religion.
Jelins engagement in the issues
of religion and sexual violence has
moved beyond the classroom and
into his extracurricular work.
I wrote these two female characters because it felt like a more
straightforward way of addressing
the things I was interested in, said
Jelin. It feels personal to me, like
Im working through stuff that occupies my mind very frequently.
Jelin felt that the visual experience
of the story would be a powerful way
to discuss gender and sexuality is-

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sues. Therefore, he wanted to bring

the story to the stage.
Its really important to explore
the way these issues affect the other
aspects in peoples lives, said Jelin.
Thats something that theater especially can do because its such a visceral [experience].
Last summer, he wrote a 30-minute version of Blackout at a playwriting program at Vassar College.
This semester, he has adapted it into
a longer performance with help from
Pritchard and Professor of Theater
Davis Robinson.
Jelin began to approach actors
about the project in January.
Im glad that hes having these
conversations, said Koster. I think
a lot of people are hesitant to, and
hes just going all in, which is great.
Jelin hopes that with his play he
can help further discussions on gender issues and assault.
With something like sexual assault, we have a very canned, scripted understanding of how it works,
said Jelin. I was also very interested
in taking two really specific characters and saying how does this
function in their lives, as opposed
to writing a play about feminism or
about sexual assault.
Koster supports Jelins mission.
I hope people arent going to be
dissuaded by the fact that [Jelins]
just another white guy, said Koster.
Incidentally, Another White
Guy is the title of the opinion column that Jelin writes for the Orient.
Hes put so much into itits a
fantastic projectand Im proud
of him.

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PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Anna Hall 15

BY ARIANA REICHERT
ORIENT STAFF

Anna Hall 15 has been drawing

for as long as she can remember.
When most kids her age had already put down their pencils and
paper, Hall stayed with art and has
continued to pursue that passion
throughout her impressive career
at Bowdoin.
Hall is a student of
many
ny talents, not all
of which are limited to the arts. She
is an earth and
oceanographic
science
ence and visual
artss double major
who
o is involved
in the Bowdoin
Outing
ting Club, the
Bowdoin
wdoin Food
Co-op
-op and the
Orient.
ent.

a little bit more literal and then some

line drawing-style paintings where I
was trying to minimize form and reduce the human body to a couple of
lines, she said. I wanted to see how
far I could push and have the image
still be recognizable.
Hall also finds the time to provide illustrations for Orient articles. Working for the Orient was
her first time experimenting
with illustrations, and said
that it has been a fun way
for her to work on ar
art
ar
outside of Bowdoin art
classes, which often fil
fill
up quickly.
For me, working for
the Orient has been a grea
great
way to do art in a social setting, she said.
Hall also uses art to
relieve the stress
from
the
h e a v y

IENT
OIN OR
BOWD
LL, THE
A
H
A
ANN

Hall is currently experimenting

with different mediums of art, particularly watercolor and photography.
I always have a roll of film going, she said. I love the physical process where youre taking
a picture and you cant look at it
right away. Its always a surprise
to develop the film, to watch what
comes out and remember what
you photographed.
Halls most recent project, for
her Senior Studio, has been with
watercolors and is now on display
at the Robert H. and Blythe Bickel
Edwards Center for Art and Dance.
I just finished up Senior Studio,
said Hall. That was a figure painting watercolor project. You dive
into a subject more so than in other

workload and busy life of a typical Bowdoin student.

At Bowdoin, art is my sanity time, said Hall. Its something
that feels less academic and a lot
more creative, which has definitely
helped my stress levels.
Drawing inspiration from the
world around her, Hall is often
excited by the random things she
finds when she is outside.
In Photo I, I was out taking pictures in the woods and I found a
vacuum cleaner, she said. I really
liked that, and ever since then I like
to notice the random things that I
find every time Im walking. I love
just seeing something interesting
and asking myself why its interesting, and then exploring that through

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

drawing or painting.
Although Hall is sure that she
will continue with her art after
graduation, she is not entirely sure
what the future holds.
I dont know if Im going to make a
career out of art. That would be great,
to maybe do something like graphic
design. However, Im definitely excited to have more time to really
pursue art for a while, she said.

classes and really work on developing the concepts throughout the

semester. Thats a lot of fun because
it requires a lot of trying something
out and then if it doesnt work, trying it again.
Hall wanted to experiment with
line drawings and the human form
for her Senior Studio project.
I hung up two paintings that are

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Frisbee teams to compete in Nationals ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

Clare McLaughlin 15
WOMENS LACROSSE

HIGHLIGHTS
Second on the team in
goals scored
Scored three goals in
the teams 12-11 NESCAC
Quarterfinal win vs. Colby
GRACE MALLETT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
COURTESY OF PETER IMHOFF

ULTIMATE CHALLENGE: Tim Boit 16 defends a Williams player in the Bowdoins mens ultimate Frisbee team, in last weekends matchup. With its play in the regional
tournament the team qualified for the D-III Nationals. Chaos Theory, the womens team, qualified for D-III nationals as well, which they won two years ago.
BY MADDIE JODKA
ORIENT STAFF

The mens and womens ultimate

Frisbee club teams both qualified
for the D-III Nationals last weekend and will compete on May 16
and 17 in Rockport, Illinois.
Its a really exciting time,
said Captain of the womens team
Sivana Barron 15. I think both
teams put a lot of work into trying
to manage their expectations and
also doing their best to accomplish
what they set out to do.
The women competed in nationals last year and came in fifteenth
place., after winning the entire
tournament the year before. This
is the first time in three years that
the men have qualified for Nationals. The tournament lasts two days
and includes sixteen D-III teams
for both the men and women.
For both teams, the competitive season begins during second
semester and continues until the
end of March. After that the teams
compete in tournaments and finish
the season at Nationals.

As club teams schedules are

independently organized. The
captains therefore hold a lot of responsibility and leadership.
Most of organizing tournaments, paying tournament fees
and advocating for ourselves as
a clubthat all falls on the captains, said captain of the mens
team Denis Maguire 15.
There are four captains of each
teamtwo seniors and two juniors.
When the seniors graduate the
teams already have two experienced
leaders for the following year.
The womens team is one of
the few teams in the league that
doesnt have a coach. It is up to
the captains to make decisions as
a coach figure.
We do a lot of logistics, lots of
planning, said Barron. But we
also do a lot to figure out which
players work best with each othera lot of the strategy.
Meanwhile, for the past two
years the mens team has hired
coaches that play on the Portland
club team, Red Tide. Maguire said

that this is helpful during tournaments as it allows the captains to

focus on playing the game instead
of calling lines and substitutes.
Although the season starts second
semester, the teams begin practicing in the fall, mainly to develop the
new players. They draw in first years
and other new players using posters,
advertising at the Student Activities
Fair, and practicing on the quad to
create visibility. The sport is somewhat unique in that it is typical for
players to have no experience before
starting college ultimate Frisbee.
Both ultimate teams have
achieved notable successes this
year. The womens team holds an
official season record of 17-7 and
the mens team has a record of 16-5.
A tough obstacle the team overcame to get to nationals was their
game against Brandeis.
In pool play we beat them 1312, which was huge for us because
it helped us advance to nationals,
said Maguire. They are definitely

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Football team promotes campus participation

BY RACHAEL ALLEN
ORIENT STAFF

Through social media, community involvement and academic

pursuit, the Bowdoin football
team is building stronger connections within the team and with
the Bowdoin community this offseason. Under the new leadership
of Coach J.B. Wells, the team has
been playing in the Bowdoin
Football League (BFL), a competition that allows players to earn
points for their team for participating and excelling at various activities around campus.
[Its a way] to be competitive
when you dont have your sport
to be competitive with, Wells
said. Ive been doing in years past
[while coaching at Endicott College] to create some competition,
some camaraderie, some team
chemistry in the off-season.
The BFL divides the team into
six teams, all named after a piece
of Bowdoin history (the Explorers after Admiral Perry, the Colonels after Joshua Chamberlain, for

example). One junior serves as the

general manager of each team
and drafted the players. The players
gain points for academics, athletics, community service, support at
other Bowdoin athletics and nonathletic events, and positive social
media.

I want them to get into the habit of

encouraging their teammates. I think
we live in a society that can be negative. Im trying to get the guys to put
up each other in a positive way.
HEAD COACH J.B. WELLS
In high school my football
team were all really close because
we had all been growing up together, player Nadim Elhage 16
said. [With the BFL], were learning about each other in a way we
havent before, so its building unbelievable team camaraderie.
From this inter-team competition, the team has bonded with

each other and their coaches, since

one coach is paired with each team.
Its a way for our coaching
staff to get to know our players
and a chance for our players to
get to know our staff, Ashmead
White Director of Athletics Tim
Ryan said. And also to emphasize
something thats really important
to Coach Wellsmembers of our
programs being involved in many
areas across campus.
This involvement includes attendance at other Bowdoin teams
games throughout the year in
hopes of building a fan base for
their games in the fall.
As our coach says, in order to
have a fan you have to be a fan, Elhage said. So were trying to go to
as many sporting events as we can
to cheer on Bowdoin athletics and
hope that in the fall theyll be out
in the stands.
Both the players and Wells acknowledge the odd tension with
this system of selflessness and
competition: the players support

Please see FOOTBALL, page 18

the sport, did not play at the

club level before Bowdoin, instead devoting time toward
Clare McLaughlin 15 scored
skiing and soccer. McLaughlin
three goals and had one asacknowledges that she has resista career high in goals and
ally benefited from the teams
pointsto help the womens lafree-flowing style of play, which
crosse team overcome an early
capitalizes on team chemistry to
deficit against Colby and give
eschew set plays for quick reads
the team a halftime lead they
on the field.
would not relinquish. McLaughI just try to work really
lin has recorded 27 goals and
hard, she said. Im more of a
three assists in 16 games this
go-with-the-flow type of player.
season, placing her at sixteenth
I figure it out as it happens.
in the NESCAC and second on
Playing this way has led to a
the team in goals.
balanced attack that teams have
McLaughlin scored two goals
struggled to defend, as anyone
off of free-position shots, awardon Bowdoins offense presents a
ed because of drawn fouls within
threat. Moreover, the team has
the eight meter attacking box.
played together long enough to
These opportunities are simitake advantage of each players
lar to penalty shots in that, alrespective strengths. Picard
though the other players remain
notes that the other players
on the field, the fouled player is
have become attuned to noticgiven a direct lane for a one-oning when McLaughlin is lookone with the
ing to drive.
g o a l t e n d e r.
But even more,
I
just
try
to
work
really
hard.
Im
more
McLaughlins
McLaughlin
other goal, of a go-with-the-flow type of player. I finds playing
B o w d o i ns
this way is a lot
figure it out as it happens.
eighth, saw
more fun.
her
sprint
Theres less
CLARE MCLAUGHLIN 15
down
the
structure and
field into the
more trusting
attacking box, spin off a defendeach other, she said. I think its
er, draw another and unleash
way more fun, and we all play
a quick strike at a sharp angle.
better when were having fun.
She finished up all three goals by
McLaughlin has used this apemphatically throwing her stick
proach to navigate the gauntlet
to the ground, a common celthat is the NESCAC playoffs as
ebration for the team during the
well, where all four quarterfinal
Colby game.
games were decided by a goal.
Clares really good at drivI have fun playing, she said.
ing right and dodging through
The more you win the more
defenders, said midfielder and
you get to go out there. I try not
linemate Lindsay Picard 16.
to think of it as pressure.
She goes to goal with a lot of
She also looks at each day as
speed, which is very advantaan opportunity to improve and
geous for her, and takes a harder
keep the team in the game for
shot thats more difficult for the
another week. As the team looks
goalie to save.
forward to its semifinals match
This season McLaughlin is
against Middlebury, it puts itself
a mainstay in Bowdoins startin range for an at-large bid in
ing lineup as one of the seven
the NCAA tournament, though
featured scoring threats, five of
even if it does not win the tourwhom topped 25 goals this seanament, the team may have to
son. After seeing time in only
knock off Middlebury to get it.
six games as a first year, she
At this point it comes down
saw time in each of the teams
to having more grit and tenacity,
games in her next two seasons,
especially at this point when all
but started no more than three.
the teams are good, McLaughSimilarly, before this season,
lin said. Im always trying to
McLaughlin had never topped
get better every day and imthree goals in a season.
prove my understanding.
McLaughlin, a Vermont naThe sports editor of the Oritive, started playing lacrosse
ent chooses the Athlete of the
in middle school and, though
Week based on exemplary pershe pursued a college career in
formance.
BY ALEX VASILE
ORIENT STAFF

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Womens sailing qualifies for Nationals Crew teams post strong

BY ALLISON WEI
ORIENT STAFF

SCORECARD
Sa 4/25

Admirals Cup
Reed Trophy

11/20
7/16

The womens sailing team qualified

for Nationals with a strong showing
at last weekends Jerry Reed Trophy,
hosted by Boston College. The co-ed
team also competed in the Admirals
Cup at Kings Point in New York, finishing eleventh out of 20 teams.
At the Jerry Reed Trophy, where
the top eight of the 16 teams competing qualify for Nationals, the Polar
Bears finished in seventh place overall. Erin Mullins 16, Dana Bloch 17
and Julia Rew 16 took seventh place
in the A Division. Courtney Koos
16 and Sydney Jacques 18 finished
ninth in the B Division.
We sailed a pretty smart event,
Head Coach Frank Pizzo said. We
didnt have any major mistakes.
There were no fouls and no starting issues, which can eat into your
score line.
Team chemistry and a strong
practice mentality have been instrumental in both the womens
and co-ed teams success throughout the season.
Weve done a really good job
supporting each other, Charlotte
Williamson 15 said. We also do a
good job in practice of simulating

our competitions. In practice, people act and sail the way they would
on the weekends and I think thats
really important.
Brown University and Salve Regina will host Nationals in Newport,
R.I. May 25th through 28 in Newport, Rhode Island. In preparation,
the womens team will practice in
conditions they may encounter at the
championship.
Were going to try to get into conditions that are similar to what there can
be at Newport, so getting into open water and getting into breezier conditions
will be important, Pizzo said.

This week is about keeping everything relatively consistent and working on the little things we can do to
get that much faster, but were not really learning anything new. Were just
fine-tuning at this point in the season.
CHARLOTTE WILLIAMSON 15
Looking forward, he said that nerves
will play a key factor in the big race.
This time of year, were focused on
executing what we need to do given
the pressures of the championship,
Pizzo said. Were trying to stay loose,
have fun, not worry about how were
going to do and just focus on the skill
sets and the things we can control.
The qualifying event for the co-ed

team will take place this weekend at

the New England Dinghy Championships at Salve Regina.
In this past weekends Admiral Cup,
Jack McGuire 17 and Williamson
placed fifteenth in the A Division. Michael Croteau 15 and Mimi Paz 17 finished ninth in the B Division. Matt Lyons 17 rounded out the scoring with an
eleventh place finish in the C Division.
To prepare for this upcoming weekends regatta, the co-ed team is looking
to sail more consistently and improve on
what its been practicing on all season.
At this point, we know how to do
well, Williamson said. This week is
about keeping everything relatively
consistent and working on the little
things we can do to get that much
faster, but were not really learning
anything new. Were just fine-tuning
at this point of the season.
The top eight of the 18 teams competing at the New England Dinghy
Championships will qualify for Nationals. The co-ed team is looking to
qualify for the championship for the
second consecutive year.
We want to start the event with
good starts and good boat speeds and
put ourselves in the position on Sunday
to potentially qualify, Pizzo said. We
want to put ourselves in the hunt and
not stress out. A lot of it is focusing on
what really matters. Were going to focus on our conditions and whats going
to be important for those conditions
and not necessarily how were finishing
in those races right away.

finishes at Clark Invitational

BY QUYEN HA
ORIENT STAFF

Last Saturday, Bowdoins crew

posted strong finishes at the
Clark Invitational Regatta, bringing home gold for the first varsity
men and silver for the first varsity women. On Sunday, the Polar
Bears also boasted impressive performances at the Presidents Cup,
including the first varsity mens
gold-medal triumph over the nationally respected varsity crew
from Bates.
The weekend before, Bowdoin
competed against nine other
schools at the University of Massachusetts Lowell Invitational
Regatta and won medals in six of
the eight events entered. The team
also earned two medals on April 11
and 12 at the Knecht Cup, the first
regatta of the season for the Polar
Bears. Over 70 schools, including
several Division I and II programs,
participated in the regatta.
According to captain Nathan
Post 15, the Polar Bears were only
able to train three days on water
after Spring Break before facing
other teams in the Knecht Cup
due to ice on the New Meadows
River, where they usually practice.
Despite the unfavorable training conditions, the mens first

varsity won the silver in their first

D-I competition, following goldmedaled University of Rhode Island (URI) by a close 1.2-second
margin. The second varsity women also captured a D-III silver
medal when they surged ahead of
Marietta College by 0.6 seconds.
The mens first novice placed first
in the Petite Final, with the fourth
fastest time of the day out of 32
crews total. The womens first and
second novice boats also broke
into the top third of the field, placing sixth and seventh, respectively, out of 28 crews.
During the heat, the first novice men caught a crab, which
means the oar gets stuck in the
water, said Post. They lost quite a
few seconds there and didnt make
to the Grand Final. Despite everything, they still got the fourth fastest time overall.
A week later, the Bowdoin team
went to Massachusetts and competed against nine other schools
from New England. Once again,
the first varsity men brought home
a silver medal, falling to URI by
1.3 seconds.
Other highlights for Bowdoin
that weekend included the gold
medal finishes in mens second

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NESCAC Standings
MENS LACROSSE
NESCAC
W
Amherst
9
Tufts
8
Middlebury 7
Wesleyan
6
Bates
6
Williams
5
Hamilton
4
Colby
4
Trinity
2
BOWDOIN 2
Conn. Coll.
2

L
1
2
3
4
4
5
6
6
8
8
8

T
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

OVERALL
W L T
15 1 0
14 2 0
12 4 0
9
7 0
10 4 0
9
6 0
8
8 0
8
7 0
4 11 0
3 12 0
4 11 0

WOMENS LACROSSE
COURTESY OF PETER IMHOFF

(NOT) CLOWNING AROUND: Nick Benfey 15 throws a backhand pass for the mens ultimate team. The teams performance last weekend earned it a spot at Nationals.

FRISBEE

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16

one of the hardest teams weve
faced so far.
The level of competition in Division III has really kicked it up a notch
within the last three years, womens
senior captain Molly Sun noted.
Both captains noted that for the
women, offense comes pretty eas-

ily. As a result, in preparation for

nationals they will focus on defense, technique and positioning.
Were hoping to face off against
Williams, added Sun. Were definitely really hoping to beat them there. We
had a close loss to them at Regionals,
so were definitely out for revenge.
Maguire said that one of the
main goals for the mens side is to
keep everyone healthy and over-

come season injuries. They will

also be working on zone offense,
which is important in the windy
conditions they will be playing
with in Illinois.
Weve had experience going against top level Division III
teams, said Maguire. We think
we can compete and win against
any team in the country in any
given game.

W
9
8
8
7
6
5
4
3
3
1
1

Trinity
Middlbury
BOWDOIN
Hamilton
Tufts
Colby
Amherst
Williams
Bates
Wesleyan
Conn. Coll.

L
1
2
2
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
9

T
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

SOFTBALL

NESCAC EAST
W
Tufts
12
BOWDOIN
8
Colby
4
Bates
4
Trinity
2
NESCAC WEST
W
Williams
10
Middlebury
6
Hamilton
5
Amherst
5
Wesleyan
4

L
0
4
8
8
10
L
2
6
7
7
8

OVERALL
W L
38 0
27 13
11 18
14 20
8 24
OVERALL
W L T
28 5
19 9
15 17
16 12
14 17 1

SCHEDULE
W
15
13
14
11
11
10
9
7
7
5
4

L
1
2
2
5
5
6
7
8
8
10
11

T
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

Fr 5/1

v. Williams at Tufts

BASEBALL

SAILING

NESCAC EAST
W
Tufts
8
BOWDOIN
6
Bates
4
Trinity
4
Colby
5
NESCAC WEST
W
Wesleyan
9
Amherst
9
Hamilton
4
Williams
4
Middlebury
1

Sa 5/2

Sa 5/2

SCHEDULE
Sa 5/2 v. Middlebury at Trinity

2:30P.M.

SCHEDULE
at New England Dinghy Champs 9:30 A.M.

WOMENS TENNIS
SCHEDULE

Sa 5/1 v. Wesleyan at Middlebury

3 P.M.
*Bold line denotes NESCAC Tournament cut-off

5 P.M.

L
4
6
5
5
7
L
0
3
5
8
11

OVERALL
W L
24 8
14 18
12 17
14 16
19 11
OVERALL
W L
21 8
20 10
14 10
12 17
4 20

SCHEDULE
v. Middlebury
v. Middlebury
at Saint Josephs

Su 5/3

NOON
2 P.M.
NOON

MENS TENNIS

SCHEDULE
Fr 5/1

v. Trinity at Middlebury

9 A.M.

TRACK AND FIELD

Compiled by Sarah Bonanno

Sources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC

SCHEDULE
Sa 5/2

at New Englands D-III

10 A.M.

Finishing season strong, mens

tennis readies for NESCACs
BY COOPER HEMPHILL
ORIENT STAFF

SCORECARD
Fri 4/24
Sa 4/25

v. Tufts
at Williams

W
W

5-4
6-3

Mens tennis earned back-toback wins against Tufts and Williams last weekend, boosting them
into the third spot in the NESCAC
as they head into the final tournament this weekend.
On April 24, the team hosted
Tufts for a conference matchup.
After a hard fought team effort,
captain Kyle Wolstencroft 15 had
a key three-set win to push the
score to 5-4 in favor of the Polar
Bears to secure the three seed.
As the singles matches came
to a close, the overall score held
even at four apiece with only the
No. 5 match still going on. One by
one the singles matches came to
a close, and Wolstencroft saw the
others players begin to drift over
to watch the final set of his match.
Even when a player is in the
middle of an individual match,
Wolstencroft said, it is often very
easy to tell what the overall score
in the competition is at that point,
and he knew that it was tied at four.
You can kind of tell, he said.
As matches are wrapping up, you
can see down the courts, but then
eventually youre the last one on.
Its pretty intense when that happens. You can let that get to you or
you can try to block it out.
Wolstencroft had won the first
set 6-3, then lost the second 2-6.

Gaining energy from the pressure

of the situation, he dominated the
final set 6-1, giving Bowdoin the
5-4 win.
In doubles play, the team of
Captain Noah Bragg 15 and Kyle
Wolf 18 won a hard-fought match
9-8 at the third spot, and the duo
of Gil Roddy 18 and Wolstencroft
cruised to a win at number two
8-2.
The team then travelled to Williams College last Saturday to play
the Ephs in their final match of the
regular season. They won decisively with a 6-3 score to improve their
record to 13-4 (6-3 NESCAC) for
the season.
The Polar Bears dominated
singles play, earning five of the six
individual matches to close out the
season with another win.
It was great, said Bragg. We
played two good teams. It becomes
a very long season and you start
to get excited as the postseason
comes around, you get to play two
tight matches.
That was a great way to end our
regular season, said Wolstencroft.
Especially as we look toward this
weekend when we go into the NESCAC tournament and play teams
who are just as good and better.
We can really take those matches,
where we played tough spots and
came out on top, to use that as confidence going into this weekend.
The tournament begins today
at 9 a.m. at Middlebury College.
Bowdoin is set to play Trinity, who
they beat earlier in the season 6-3.

Please see M. TENNIS, page 20

SNAPSHOTS TAKEN FROM TWITTER.COM

TAKE TO THE TWEETS: Under the leadership of new head coach J.B. Wells, the football team is taking part in the Bowdoin Football League, a competition that incentivizes
athletes to promote campus activities and support teammates. One such method of participation is through social media and the hashtag #forwardthewhite.

FOOTBALL
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16

others (their teammates, Bowdoin

athletic teams) yet gain points for
doing these good gestures.
As Wells notes, the team culture
built in the process of this structured
competition is the ultimate goal.
I want them to get into the habit of encouraging their teammates,
Wells said. I think we live in a society that can be very negative. Im
trying to get the guysto put up
each other in a positive way.
This positivity permeates in part
through the teams surge of social
media, an outlet many teams use to
promote themselves and other teams.
With tweets giving shoutouts to hardworking teammates, other athletic
teams events or any positive Bowdoin
spirit, the players twitter accounts have
been spreading the Bowdoin football
brand, as Elhage said, to students,
alumni and prospective students.
It [is] a way for senior football

guys across the pond in Italy or

China studying to keep in touch
a bit with the guys and hear about
whats going on back home, said
next years captain captain Parker
Mundt 16, who is currently studying abroad in China.

[Its a way] to be competitive when

you dont have your sport to be competitive with.
HEAD COACH J.B. WELLS

By using the hashtag #forwardthewhite, the team has found

another way to extend the Bowdoin
football presence to Bowdoin football alumni, connecting with the
traditional Bowdoin fight song,
Forward the White.
Sung after every Bowdoin football
win, this fight song was originally
a winning poem for the Bowdoin

Prize Song Contest in 1913. As a

blurb on the football teams website
describes, teams used to be identified solely by their school color, not
mascot. Bowdoin was the white
and the song pays homage to that.
As much as the teams initiatives
channel the past, ultimately they demonstrate the wider reshaping of the
team under new leadership this season.
Its a complete difference,
Elhage said. [BFL] is building
something and [making us feel] as
if were a part of something, more
than its been in years past.
By watering the bamboo, a
metaphor well-used by Wells,
the team hopes to have sown the
seedswatered the bamboofor a
larger payoff in the fall and years
to come.
I think the team bond were
building now will continue
through the summer into the fall
[and] hopefully help us win a lot
more games than we have the past
couple years, Elhage said.

friday, may 1, 2015

sports

the bowdoin orient

Womens lacrosse edges

19

Baseball wins 3 of 4 to close out conference play

Colby in NESCAC quarterfinals

BY LIZA TARBELL
ORIENT STAFF

SCORECARD
Sa 4/25

v. Colby

12-11

The third-seeded Polar Bears (142, 8-2 NESCAC) advanced to the NESCAC semifinals after beating sixthseeded Colby (10-6, 5-5 NESCAC)
12-11 on Saturday. Tomorrow, the
team will compete against secondseeded Middlebury (13-2, 8-2 NESCAC) in its first trip to the NESCAC
semifinals since 2011 and its fifth appearance in the programs history.
Every NESCAC quarterfinal
match this past weekend was decided by a single goal; every Bowdoin-Colby matchup since 2011 has
ended in a one-goal difference.
Lindsay Picard 16 led the charge,
contributing to half of Bowdoins
points with a hat trick and three
assists. She also won five draw controls, all of which helped earn her
NESCAC Player of the Week honors.
The team suffered from several
turnovers and stolen passes in the
beginning of the match. However,
the teams 4-0 run during the final
minutes of the first half boosted the
Polar Bears from a two-goal deficit
to a two-goal lead at the half, which
they built throughout the second period to fend off the Mules.
It was a huge team effort. Everyone came out with a lot of fire from
the start. What really helped us was
coming into the second half and
knowing we had to give everything
again, said Picard.
Sarah Freeman 15, who caused
two turnovers and two ground
balls, noted her teams renewed energy in the second half after a tough
first period.
Although we played really well, it
wasnt the cleanest game that weve
hadespecially the first half, she
said. But I think in the second half,
we really rallied and came back from
being down.
Freeman emphasized what the
team needs to do to win against
Middlebury on Saturday.
We definitely have the skills to
beat [Middlebury] if we play together, and [are] calm and everyone gets
really motivated, said Freeman.

Clare McLaughlin 15, who also

scored three goals against Colby,
referred to the numerous turnovers
and stolen passes in the matchup
a weak spot the team has tried to
amend in practice this week in preparation for Saturday.
We just want to use this week
to get better every day at practice to make sure that we go in
with our gritour intensity, said
McLaughlin. [Well try to] minimize turnovers so we can play to
our potential.
The Polar Bears lost to Middlebury 14-8 earlier in the season.
I think were really excited because we want that redemption,
said McLaughlin. I havent beaten
Middlebury in my four years, and Id
love to beat them.
Despite the wide margin of goals
by which the Panthers beat the Polar
Bears in their early season matchup,
McLaughlin believes her team can
pull off an upset.
Although we lost by a bunch,
those games never felt far apart
it never felt out of reach, said
McLaughlin.
The team will draw on its deep
lineup in the semifinal match.
If you look at our goals, theyre
scored by tons of different people,
and each game it is undecided who
will have the best game and who
will be the standout, said Freeman.
Whats made our team so good this
year and made it really cohesive on
and off the field is that we have a ton
of people that contribute.
The Polar Bears hope to advance
from the semifinals to Sundays
championship match, aiming for the
programs first ever NESCAC Championship title.
Thats something that everyone
looks for, but I think thats going to
have to come after we win on Saturday, and you cant think too far in
advance, said Picard.
As the Polar Bears battle it out
against the Panthers on Saturday,
first-seeded Trinity will play fifthseeded Tufts in the other semifinal. If they win tomorrow, the Polar Bears will advance to the title
match on Sundaya feat which
would break a nine-year hiatus
since their last Championship game
appearance in 2006.

ABBY MOTYCKA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

AROUND THE WORLD AND BAT AGAIN: Chad Martin 16 hits a fly ball in yesterdays 6-2 loss to the University of Southern Maine. The teams three conference wins
against Colby and Bates last week have it waiting for Trinity and Bates matchup against each other this weekend to see if it qualifies for the NESCAC Championships.
BY ELI LUSTBADER
ORIENT STAFF

SCORECARD
Fri 4/24
Sa 4/25
Tu 4/28
Th 4/30

v. Colby
at Colby
at Colby
at Bates
v. So. ME

W
W
L
W
L

7-4
5-3
4-3
15-4
6-2

After an injury-filled season,

baseball strung together three key
victories in its final four divisional
games to finish with a 6-6 record
in the NESCAC East and a chance
to qualify for the NESCAC tournament this weekend.
Heading into the weekend, Bowdoins playoff hopes depend on the
Trinity-Bates series. Both teams
are 4-5 in NESCAC play, and
Bowdoin owns the head-to-head
tiebreaker over Bates, but not over
Trinity. The only scenario where
Bowdoin qualifies, then, is if Bates
wins exactly two out of three over
the Bantams.
On Friday, Bowdoin defeated rival Colby 7-4 in the first of a threegame set. Then, in the Saturday
doubleheader, the Polar Bears won
the first 5-3, and lost the second
4-3. Finally, in Tuesdays must-win
against Bates, Bowdoin blew out the
Bobcats 15-4. In an out of conference game yesterday, however, the
Polar Bears fell 6-2 to the University of Southern Maine (USM).

I would say the reason weve been

playing so well down the stretch is
that weve had a consistent, healthy
lineup over the last two weekends,
captain Aaron Rosen 15 said. All
year, injuries to key players have not
only taken guys out of games but
also made the transition back into
offense kind of hard.
One of the keys to Bowdoins
success has been the exceptional
performances of Henry Van Zant
15, who pitched a complete game
on Friday and another stellar eight
innings on Tuesday. Van Zant leads
the NESCAC with a 5-0 in-conference record and is 7-1 overall in
nine starts with a 1.95 ERA.
Its always cool to watch Henry,
Rosen said. Especially when his
arm is hanging after the 130 or
so pitches he threw on Friday. He
threw another 140 yesterday; you
always know youre going to get a
gritty performance out of him.
In Fridays victory, the teams
were locked at 4-4 going into the
bottom of the seventh. With two
outs in the inning, Chris Cameron
15 punched a single up the middle
that scored Rosen and Erik Jacobsen 15 to put the Polar Bears ahead
for good. Sam Canales 15 followed
with another single that scored
Cole DiRoberto 15 and pushed
Bowdoins lead to three.
Over the course of the weekend,
our bats came alive, Head Coach
Mike Connelly said. So many of

our games have really been decided by that big two out hit, and this
weekend we got some big hits in
some key spots.
In the first of two Saturday
games, Bowdoin scored four runs
in the second inning and tacked
on another in the third. That was
all the run support Harry Ridge 16
needed to put down the Mules, and
he struck out six while walking only
one. Chris Nadeau 16, Sean Mullaney 17, Cameron, Jacobsen, and
DiRoberto each had an RBI for the
Polar Bears in a team victory.
In the second game, Bowdoin
blew a three run lead and lost to
Colby in extra innings despite a
strong performance from Rosen,
who hit a two-run homer and stole
two bases. It was Rosens fifth home
run of the year, tied for second in
the NESCAC.
The first three innings of Tuesdays landslide win over Bates were
a showcase in hitting from both
teams, with the Polar Bears leading
6-4 going into the top of the fourth.
It would continue that way for
Bowdoin, as they scored three runs
in each of the fifth, sixth and ninth
innings. However, once Van Zant
settled in Bates was denied another
run. Bowdoin put the game out of
reach in the fifth when Chad Martin 16 crushed a three run homer
to put the Polar Bears ahead 9-4.

Please see BASEBALL, page 20

COURTESY OF STEPH SUN

DISK AND DISMISS: Rachel Musante 17 and Elisabeth Strayer 15 look to advance the disk for Chaos Theory in a game earlier this season. Both Chaos Theory and Stoned Clown, the mens team, will travel to Illinois for Nationals on the weekend of May 16-17.

20

friday, may 1, 2015

the bowdoin orient

sports

In defense of baseball: not just your dads sport

LEFT OF
PESKY POLE
WILL OSSOFF
Even for the most rabid fan,
its incredibly difficult to find time
at Bowdoin to watch professional
sports. In high school, I ate my bagel
at the breakfast table to the background sounds of Scott Van Pelt and
John Anderson on SportsCenter. At
Bowdoin, breakfast often involves
cramming for whatever lecture, test,
or paper may fall on that day. I get
my three-minute daily sports update
from the Bleacher Report app on my
way to class. Despite my irrational
and unconditional love for the Boston Red Sox, I havent sat down and
watched an entire Sox game all year.
For many Bowdoin students, there is
only one justification for putting off
homework and other commitments
to watch sports: a three-hour football
window on Sundays in the fall.
And yet, despite the fact that the
heat is still on in the dorms and the
temperature still fluctuates by thirty
degrees outside, summer is just weeks
away. Emerging from the eight-month
grind of exams and papers, many students will use their newfound freedom
to reacquaint themselves with their
favorite professional sports. However,
its depressing to me that so few will
turn to the quintessential game of
summer. Baseball, our national pastime, seems to be past its time for a
large portion of our generation.
Some will prefer to watch the NHL

and NBA playoffs, which absurdly

extend until the end of June, but at
least are exciting and worth watching. Even after these playoffs end,
however, many will prefer to turn
on the NFL Network and listen to
endless Jameis Winston vs. Marcus
Mariota comparisons and coverage of Johnny Manziels latest antics.
Despite the NFLs best efforts to consume the year-round attention of the
American sports fan, summer still
belongs to baseballfor our parents.
The average age of the 2012 World
Series audience was 53 years, eight
years higher than that of the Super
Bowl and 12 years higher than the
NBA Finals.
Younger viewers dont have the interest or the patience to sit down and
watch a ball game. Yes, baseball is a
slow game, and the MLB should continue to step up its efforts to reduce
the time between pitches. But there
are also thirty seconds between every
play in football, and a whistle blown
every thirty seconds in a basketball
game. And whats the rush? Baseball
epitomizes those wonderfully lazy,
laidback summer nights. Grab a cold
drink, open a bag of cracker jacks,
and smell the fresh cut grass.
But for many in the smartphone
generation, baseball is like Blockbuster in a Netflix world. Where are
the bone-crushing tackles and the
slam dunks? Why spend three hours
watching a game when the only exciting thing that could happen is the
occasional home run?
In my final words as a columnist
for the Orient, I want to implore my

fellow sports fans out there to give

baseball another chance. First, enjoy the nuance of the sport. Every
at-bat is a battle, every pitch a strategic calculation. The ending is unpredictable: the battle could end in
the catchers glove, the center field
bleachers, or anywhere in between.
And nothing in sports compares to
the suspense of a tie game in bottom
of the ninth, when the outcome hinges on every pitch. Thats the beauty of
this clock-less sport: baseball ends on
its own terms.
Second, theres no other sport that
is so elegantly quantifiable. Every
pitch becomes infinitely more interesting when you know the stats, because the numbers give every player
a unique story. When Xander Bogaerts hit under .150 in two different months last year, I watched every
pitch anxiously to see if he would
break his slump. Whenever David
Ortiz steps to the plate this year, he
can inch closer to that hallowed 500
home run barrier (only 30 more to
go). And if Clay Buchholz is on the
hill, there are two equally likely outcomes: a brilliant shutout, or a nine
run shellacking.
Finally, numbers aside, baseball is
a beautiful game: the precision of a
well-placed slider, the grace of a diving catch, and the raw power of a 400foot home run. Theres something
amazing to see in every moment of a
baseball game. All you have to do is
slow down, turn off your phone, and
lose yourself in the sights and sounds
of the ballpark. Thats what summer
is for.

CREW

M. TENNIS

varsity, mens first novice and

womens first novice. The second
varsity men walked away with
their first gold medal of the season, 6.6 seconds ahead of secondplaced University of Connecticut.
Last Saturday, Bowdoin entered
two crews at the Clark Invitational
Regatta and brought back a gold
for the mens first varsity and a
silver for the womens first varsity
boats.
We had a new lineup for the
womens boat, said captain Mary
Bryan Barksdale 15. We started
off a little awkward and were only
in fourth place at the first 500 meters. But we remained calm and
confident, chipping away at our
competitors and ending in second
instead.
On Sunday, the team raced
against Bates and Colby at the Bobcats home course in Greene, Maine.
The first varsity men sailed
ahead of the Mules boat by 6.1
seconds to finish first, while the
first novice men defeated Colby
and trailed behind Bates by 8.6
seconds to win a silver medal.
The womens novice eight, which
include the first and second novice crews, also finished in second
place, capping off a successful
weekend for the Polar Bears.
Next Saturday, Bowdoin will
compete in the New England
Championship. The first varsity
men and first and second varsity
women will move on to the national Aberdeen Dad Vail Regatta on
the weekend of May 8 and 9.

Its going to be a tough match,

especially because anything can
happen in these playoff tournaments, said Wolstencroft. With a
team like Trinity which has a lot of
seniors, this is sort of their last go

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17

ABBY MOTYCKA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

OFF BASE: Buddy Shea 15 takes a lead in Bowdoins 6-2 loss against Southern Maine yesterday.

BASEBALL
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19

That game was a blast, Rosen

said. As coach said, that was the
easy part. Now we have to wait and
see if we make it into the tournament, and thats the tough part.
Im just praying that we get into
the thing, Rosen said. If we some-

how sneak in, I feel like we can win it

all with the way weve been playing.
Bowdoin will close out its regular
season with three games over the
weekend: a doubleheader at home
against Middlebury on Saturday
and an away game at St. Josephs.
None of these three games will affect their playoff chances, regardless of result.

BO BLECKEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

SOUND ON THE MOUND: Emily Grin 17 winds up during the Polar Bears 12-11 loss to Husson
earlier this week. Earlier in the week Grin led the Polar Bears to a 9-0 shutout win against
Brandeis. The team, after cruising to the second seed in NESCAC East division two weeks ago, finished its regular season with doubleheaders at Brandeis and against Husson earlier this week. The
Polar Bears will face o against Williams, the West division champions, in the NESCAC semifinals
today at 5 p.m. at Tufts.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18

around. They are gonna be fired up

and we better be fired up too.
Bowdoin will need to bring its
best to the court in order to advance
to the second round. The winner of
todays match will look to face Middlebury in the semifinals tomorrow
morning at 9 a.m. The NESCAC final will be held on Sunday.

OPI NION

friday, may 1, 2015

The Bowdoin goodbye

hen members of the Bowdoin community reminisce about President Barry Mills in five, 10, or 15 years, they will talk about his
expansion of financial aid, his fundraising skills and the many
campus buildings constructed during his career. But when the students
who matriculated during Mills tenure talk about him, theyll remember
other things: the times he sat down with students during lunch at Thorne
Dining Hall, his slow walks across the Quad, his printed face glued to popsicle sticks during this years Bowdoin-Colby hockey game. President Mills
achieved the ultimate success at Bowdoin: He grew the Colleges national
profile while still making it feel like home.
Considering how well he fits the identity of the College, it is ironic that
Mills was an afterthought for the 2001 presidential search committeea
committee Mills himself chaired. A biology and government double major
and a member of the Class of 1972, Mills took full advantage of the liberal
arts experience while a student at Bowdoin. After leaving Brunswick, he
continued his varied academic pursuits, earning a doctorate in biology and
a law degree. Mills then became a successful lawyer in New York and began
volunteering his time as a Trustee of the College shortly thereafter.
Once chosen as President, Mills prowess as a fundraiser stood out among
his other achievements. Some may only remember him for the capital campaign from 2004 to 2009 that raised $250 million, or for his stewardship of
the College recession, but Mills was much more than just a financial leader.
He took a genuine interest in the experiences of the students, attending and
participating in lectures, performances, presentations and athletic events.
He also took campus issues head on, responding directly to the National
Association of Scholars conservative critique of the College in 2013 and
meeting continuously with campus activists throughout his tenure.
President Mills accessibility and affable nature extended to his approach
to admissions, an area in which he did hands-on work to bring the best and
brightest to Bowdoin. Many remember Mills approaching them and their
parents at Accepted Students Day to give an honest assessment of the College, while others received personal phone calls from Mills when they were
still in the midst of the choosing the right school. For Mills, bringing the
best to Bowdoin meant relentlessly dedicating himself and the College to
increasing financial aid funds and ensuring that no accepted student would
be unable to attend for monetary reasons. This past December, the faculty
endowed a scholarship in honor of Mills and his wife, Karen, and their commitment to the practice of need-blind admissions. The faculty gave him a
standing ovation, and he deserved nothing less.
Although Mills will not officially relinquish leadership of the College
until July 1, he is probably experiencing many of the same sentiments of
nostalgia that graduating seniors are feeling. Fittingly, he will soon be
made an honorary member of the Class of 2015. When you see President
Mills around campus before you pack up for the summer, dont hesitate to
stop him and thank him for what hes done for the College. If weve learned
anything about him, its that hell be more than happy to stop and chat.
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orients editorial
board, which is comprised of Garrett Casey, Ron Cervantes, Sam Chase, Matthew
Gutschenritter, Nicole Wetsman and Kate Witteman.

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Support fall teach-in on racism, climate change

BY MADELEINE MSALL
CONTRIBUTOR

This piece is submitted on behalf of

22 Bowdoin faculty members from the
following departments: Africana studies,
art history, Asian studies, biology, classics,
economics, English, cinema studies, government and legal studies, mathematics,
music, neuroscience, philosophy, physics,
psychology, religion, romance languages
and sociology & anthropology.
For the past three months, a group
of students and faculty called Intersections: People, Planet and Power (IP3)
has worked to understand how climate
disruption exacerbates issues of racial
and socio-economic injustice and how
legacies of inequity affect climate activism. We began with a roundtable discussion on the intersections of racism
and climate change. We continued with
a workshop on holding difficult conversations. What is next?
Next fall, on September 17, IP3 will
host a day-long teach-in on these topics.
The community will gather for discussions, open classes and panel presentations made by and for students, faculty
and staff. We hope that this will be a day

of discovery, where we evaluate the financial and social costs of action and inaction for all the stakeholders on Earth.
As members of an educational community, our job is to educate ourselves
and others about the likely consequences of our current actions and about alternatives. The dual threats of systemic
inequity and climate destabilization are
linked in both cause and effect, rooted
in the careless exploitation of human
and natural resources and resulting in
the physical and social destruction of
communities. There are no simple cures
for racism, sexism, the oppression of
the poor, the continued destruction of
plants and animals, the increase in extreme heat and drought, or rising sea
levels. There are, however, many proposals for improvements to our legal
system: international collaborations to
safeguard human rights and protect
ecosystems, market adjustments, and
changes in local and national infrastructure that might help. We need to learn
about these things and to reach across
institutional hierarchies and disciplinary borders to discuss them.
We encourage the entire campus
community to suggest interdisciplin-

ary teaching teams that will address

topics related to social and climate
justice. Some examples may help illustrate the idea: An open class Infectious Disease in a Warming World:
Whos at Risk? could be co-taught by
staff from the health center and members of the sociology department;
Frances Nukes/Africas Woe: Who
Stores the Dirty Waste from Clean
Power could be taught by the French
and Africana studies departments.
Making Policy in the U.S.: Who has a
Seat at the Table? could be led by the
government and gender and womens
studies departments. In addition to
open classes, interdisciplinary panels
are sought to address topics such as:
American Cities; Rising Seas and
Climate Refugees; Contested Science; Colonial Legacies; Environmental Racism; Geoengineering;
and Apportioning Risk. These are
only a few examples of the connections. Now we need your input and
energy. Please email mmsall@bowdoin.edu for more information and
build September 17 into your plans.
Madeleine Msall is a professor of
physics.

There is something missing at Bowdoin

BY MICHELLE KRUK
CONTRIBUTOR

Bowdoin students have favoritesa

favorite dining hall, favorite professor
and favorite a cappella group. I have
a favorite door. The inside of the Chapels bathroom door is one that has always captivated me. It is covered with
penned signatures of both alums and
current students. Running my hand
over someones etched out name, I think
about what Bowdoin may have looked
like five, 10, 20 years ago. I think about
its purpose as a symbol for the Bowdoin
communitythat so many people felt
enough of a connection to Bowdoin that
they wanted a permanent reminder of
their experiences here. I have not signed
this door, yet, although I have come
close many times. I have pulled out a
sharp-pointed pen on several occasions
only to be flooded with disappointment.
As of today, I do not want my name on
this door. For all that Bowdoin has provided me, there is something missing.
There is something missing when racial slurs uttered during weekend nights
are dismissed as isolated accidents:
People say all sorts of things when
theyre drunk.
When another white guy tells me
what to do with my racethat I should
not hide it nor should I be defined by it,
there is something missing.
When parts of campus I have relied
on for support suddenly fall silent be-

cause my advocacy breaches their level

of comfort.
When my peers believe I should be
stripped of my leadership positions for
signing a document that aimed to illuminate the existing racial tensions present on campus.
When the College responds to activism at face value rather than digging
down to the root causehurt, disenfranchisement and marginalization.
When countless prospective students
have told me that what keeps them on
the fence about coming to Bowdoin is
the state of diversity on this campus
because 30 percent students of color
doesnt mean a whole lot when youre in
that 30 percent.
There is something missing when I
hear students of color discussing their
experience at Bowdoin reiterate some
version of this sentiment: This place
has broken me.
A culture of mutual compassion is
missing. An intent to lead with curiosity is missing. An attitude of accepting
mutual responsibility is missing. Bowdoin ought to do better. I have faith and
a deep (albeit complicated) love for this
college and all of its membersstudents, faculty, staff and administration.
We must hold ourselves to higher standards to do better and seek more. We
must work, listen and learnand force
ourselves to be uncomfortable in the
process, especially to understand privi-

lege as well as inequality.

I have been condemned in the past
for not cushioning my criticisms of
Bowdoin with a simultaneous commendation. To be clear, I am well
aware of what Bowdoin provides its
students, all of which I am grateful
for. However, the danger of progress
is complacency, an illusory belief that
our work is done, and the silencing of
dissenting voices.
This campus has produced countless
glimmers of hope just this past year. Students have awoken from their slumber
and something is stirring. This is evident
in the multiple displays of solidarity and
the many thought-provoking lecturers
brought to campus. These events indicate that Bowdoin is capable of doing
better.
I do believe that one day, I will sign
the door in the Chapel. It will not happen this year. It may not even happen by
the time I graduate. But one day in the
future, someone will ask me: What was
your favorite thing about Bowdoin?
and I will answer: There was a door in
our Chapel that dozens, if not hundreds
of Bowdoin students of all years signed.
And Ill smile, knowing that my signature on that door means more than feeling part of the Polar Bear community
it will mean that the voices of students
like me were heard.
Michelle Kruk is a member of the Class
of 2016.

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friday, may 1, 2015

the bowdoin orient

opinion

The importance of respecting sexual assault survivors stories

CONTRIBUTED BY ERIN LEDDY
ON BEHALF OF A SURVIVOR OF SEXUAL ASSAULT

The following piece does not represent my personal experience, voice or

opinion but rather those of a survivor
who prefers to remain anonymous
and to whom I have been providing
support in my capacity as a SafeSpace
advocate. Additionally, this article
does not represent the opinion of
SafeSpace, which is an apolitical and
confidential organization that does
not take any unified stance on the
opinion presented here.
What SafeSpace and I as a leader
of the group do support and wish to
give voice to, is the issue of sexual
assault and how it is widely understood and discussed. The story
below illustrates the extremely personal pain and offense that can result from treating sexual assault in
a thoughtless or insensitive manner.
I hope this piecewhich may trigger strong emotionsencourages
those who read it to become better
educated about these issues, and to
be more cognizant in the future of
the potential impact of their words
and actions.
As a SafeSpace member, I encourage readers to reach out to advocates
or to SASSMM for support or if they
want to learn more about campus
resources related to sexual assault
prevention, education, and advocacy.
Here is this survivors story:
Two years ago, I was raped by a
former Bowdoin student. Suddenly
I went from having a perfectly normal sophomore year to losing any

sense of stability. Feeling extremely

violated and empty, I was stunned
into silence and often struck with
sudden feelings of terror while going about normal activities. What
were once safe and fun environments became dark confines in
which a predator could be lurking
around any corner. It took me two
months to fill out the form to report
an incident of sexual assault and
even then, I reported completely
anonymously with few details.
In the year that it took me to fully
recover I relied heavily on the support of friends and my sister to rebuild the sense of trust that I had
lost in everyone around me. Along
the way I was utterly paranoid that
people around campus would find
out. I panicked at the thought of my
image being shaped in this small
community by one horrible night.
I woke up to nightmares of people
knocking on my door; vivid dreams
of feeling unsafe because of my
choice to report compounded with
a deep and dirty sense of shame.
One thing I never encountered,
however, was people who questioned if my story were true. Had
this happened, it would have shattered the small part of me that was
left hanging on inside my shell of a
body. If people found out about the
rape and called me a liar I certainly
would have had to leave Bowdoin.
A few weeks ago in the Orient,
James Jelin 16 failed to address
many themes and details of this sensitive issue. For example, he cites the
fact that many cases do not go to the

police and remain uninvestigated in

order to question the current statistics about sexual assaults. He fails to
appreciate why so many cases dont
go to the police. I could give you a
hundred: public shame, fear of retribution, failure to report in a timely
manner, depression, lack of access
to resources and intimidation by the
offending party are just a few.
Every case is different and occurs under a unique set of circumstances. Even at a supportive place
like Bowdoin, where so many of
my peers are trained about the resources and procedures for sexual
assaults, it took me two months
to find the courage to report completely anonymously. To this day, I
cannot understand how the strong
women who do report their assaults

Feelings will never

form the black and white
boxes that Jelin seems to
need in order to call sexual
assault a crime.
to authorities or who are in the public eye do it.
Additionally, Jelin cites that
many of his friends are terrified
of being falsely accused of sexual
assault. He proceeds to try to use
data to invalidate their claims, but
ends up affirming their concerns
about false reporting. Jelin cites

various problems with the studies

he analyzes as reasons for why the
conversation surrounding sexual
assault is muddled. However, the
fact that there are problems with
the methodologies of these studies
should have no bearing on whether
we believe that an individual victim
is telling the truth.
Instead of engaging with clear
data he wrote a casually toned and
poorly researched article that hurts
survivors on our campus. He has
convoluted the conversation with
insensitive information that damages the progress of conversations
about rape. While he wrote that his
friend claimed that being accused
of committing sexual assault is the
worst type of slander, in fact what
Jelin has written is a much worse
type of slander for survivors.
Furthermore, he points to the
many different definitions of sexual
assault floating around and the he
said, she said problem with these
definitions. The fact of the matter is that everyone has a right to
their own body and only they can
say when they feel uncomfortable
and when they feel they have been
violated. Feelings will never form
the black and white boxes that Jelin
seems to need in order to call sexual
assault a crime. Sexual assaults are
not a matter of irreconcilable gut
feelings, as he claims, but rather
tangible and quantifiable incidents
that ruin peoples lives. Women are
already taught to question themselves at so many steps in the process
(were my clothes slutty? Did I owe

him something for bringing him

home with me?) and sexual assault
statistics are almost always underreported due to this self-doubt. For
example, look at Bowdoins Clery
Report in which only four forcible
sex offenses supposedly occurred
at Bowdoin in 2012, the year I was
raped. I personally know of six that
occurred and I am certain that the
actual number is much higher.
Lastly, Im not sure how Jelins article makes any meaningful conclusions about the current problems
with acquiring sexual assault statistics or defining sexual assault. Im
glad Jelin has decided to ensure that
his sexual partners arent incapacitated as a means of not committing sexual assault (does he want
a round of applause?), but to prioritize that status over making sure
that his actions dont make his partner uncomfortable is totally backward. While the article brought up
an important topic, I condemn Jelin
for his insensitivity. With his article, he weakens the voices of survivors and chips away at my restored
sense of self.
While I have had the good fortune of loyal friends and great resources, many survivors of sexual
assault would be irreversibly damaged if the veracity of their accusations were doubted. Going public
is something even I do not have
the courage to do, and the women
who do should be supported and
applauded by those around them,
rather than ravaged and questioned
by arguments like Jelins.

An unnecessary minority: female underrepresentation in STEM fields

BY MADDIE BUSTAMANTE,
GRACE HANDLER AND ROYA MOUSSAPOUR
CONTRIBUTORS

The three of us are fortunate to

attend a college where the intellectual climate allows us to express
our opinions in an open and public
way. For this reason, we intend to
share our individual experiences
as women majoring in Computer
Science and Physics, two of the
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) disciplines
where women are underrepresented. Both of these disciplines significantly affect our day-to-day lives
at Bowdoin and beyond in a world
changed every day by science and
technology.
While women in STEM are just
one type of underrepresentation at
Bowdoin, we do not raise the issue
of women in these departments as
a more important issue than others. Instead, we share our own experiences to bring to light the importance of addressing
all types of underrepresentation by using the
STEM fields as an example of that profound
inequality.
Comparing
statistics from the National
Science Foundation of
women receiving degrees in Math, Computer
Science, and Physics to
Bowdoins Institutional
Research/Analytics data
about Fall 2014 declared
majors and minors, we
found that Bowdoin is on
par with national statistics.
At Bowdoin, 23.5 percent
of computer science majors,
32.5 percent of math majors,
and 18.8 percent of physics ma-

jors are women. According to data

from the National Science Foundation, in 2012, 18.2 percent of
Computer Science undergraduate
degrees were awarded to women.
In 2013, 42 percent of Math undergraduate degrees and 19.5 percent
of Physics undergraduate degrees
were awarded to women. It is important to recognize that with the
small size of these three departments at Bowdoin, particularly
with Physics, these percentages are
subject to large fluctuations. Nevertheless, Bowdoin lines up with
national statistics.
Yet what is happening on the
groundin class, in dorms, at
dinneris different. While our
experiences have been largely
positive in our fields of study
at Bowdoin, we have also each
experienced the implications
of being a gender minority in
the classroom. For example,

DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

when one of us expressed excitement that we had finished applications for summer research, a male
peer responded, Dont worry,
youll get one because youre a
girl. This is an example of a microaggression, which is a form of
unintended discrimination. Sentiments like this are expressed
to all kinds of minorities both
inside and outside of the
classroom and have the ability to make students question whether they deserve
their place in their field of
study. This is important
to recognize as a campus. We want to see departments begin conversations to develop
healthier cultures,
where students of
all genders, races,
ethnicities, sexualities, and abilities
feel that they hold
a valuable place.
There is no a
clear reason why
these microaggressions exist, though
discussions to address these issues
are taking place
nationwide. Bowdoin has consistently been a leader regarding many
high profile issues
in colleges both
socially, as with
our hard alcohol
and sexual assault
policies, and academically, in regards
to the Digital and Computational Studies initiative. When we
look around our campus, we know
how capable each Bowdoin student

is. With that in mind, we also know

that the Bowdoin community will
continue to be a leader for women
in STEM. With this piece, we ask
you to join us in our work to actively address this underrepresentation.
In discussions with peers and
faculty members throughout the
last year, we have realized not only
how much work has been done,
but also how much work is being
done behind the scenes to overcome issues of gender inequality.
We have found so many members
of the community seeking not
only to improve the experience for
people of all genders at Bowdoin,
but also beyond our campus. This
great work and related advancement, however, do not change the
fact that there is still a minority of
women in STEM at Bowdoin. If we
all represent Bowdoin and are all
working toward the common good,
any unnecessary minority must be
recognized, and we are bringing a
public, student voice to the role of
women within that space.
We recognize that women and
other minorities in these disciplines have different experiences.
Even our own experiences have
varied. While some women are not
aware of the underrepresentation
of women in STEM until explicitly
told, others struggle with it regularly. We hope to empower women
as members of the College and as
members of their respective departments. Seek support in faculty,
staff and peers, but also seek support in your own successesthere
are certainly many of them.
Maddie Bustamante and Roya
Moussapour are members of the
Class of 2017. Grace Handler is a
member of the Class of 2017 and the
Orients web editor.

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Instead of Ivies, Bowdoin students should care more about the world around us
DOING
IT WRONG
MAYA REYES
Last weekend in Brunswick, Maine,
hundreds of students at an elite liberal
arts college in New England imbibed
day and night. Some students played
drinking games in class, because education is unbearable. The Brunswick Quad
was littered with glass bottles and metal
cans on Friday, because recycling bins
are few and far between on this campus.
Outside my window, people screamed
the lyrics to Uptown Funk at 2 a.m.
You just started Ivies? Ive been at
it since Monday! proclaimed prideful
early birds on Thursday night.
Wait, you dont want to go to the
concert, are you okay? asked a concerned friend.
Its party time, declared an Orient
article.
This year, I began to really think
about Ivies weekend. It is something
many Bowdoin students really seem
to care about. What does that say
about us?
Work hard, play hard.
Its true that we work hard as college
students, staying up late in our rooms
or in the library, planning events and
meetings, and participating in various

extracurricular activities.
All of this is a privilege. Attending
Bowdoin has been the biggest privilege
Ive ever had in my life. At Bowdoin I get
to learn about whatever I find interesting, and I feel validated and respected by
my peers and professors. I have access
to millions of books, countless journals,
and expensive software. I can talk to my
professors one-on-one. I get to live in a
place where I feel safe walking at night.
I am surrounded by welcoming people.
While Bowdoin is not pleasant or
easy for everyone, I think it is objectively nurturing. I struggle to cope
with the idea that some students
treat their studies like a great
burden. If you dont enjoy what
youre studying, its time to
try something new. It is one
thing to feel unfocused because of external stress, but
it is another thing to treat
your studies as something
to just get over witha
means to a degree and
nothing else.
Are our studies so unbearable that we need an
entire week to constantly
drink and party? Why
is that what we choose to
dedicate so much time, energy and money to? Of course
students deserve to relax, but can
such a tiring event even count? Ivies,

and weekends of debauchery in general, are exhausting on a mental, physical

and social level.
When I was in high
school, I naively
thought college
would be a

DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

place of constant political unrest. That

there would be people protesting or
handing out fliers about whatever cause
they cared about. I imagined countless
conversations about
current issues.
But at Bowdoin,
people get annoyed
when petitioners use
the student activities
table in the Union, or
when they have to go to
a talk for a class.
Students
dedicate
themselves to Ivies, often
skipping class or work. Its
the social event of the season.
I attended some of it myself
and no individual person is accountable for this. But it is concerning that this is what people
look forward to. Drinking to
the point of throwing up or forgetting the day or tiring yourself
out so much that you cant get
out of bed is painful for me to see
bright young people aspire to.
A little over 500 miles away,
protests and rioting broke out in
Baltimore. As I write this column,
two days later, people are still on
the streets of Baltimore, dedicating
themselves to expressing their grief
and anger over the death of Freddie
Gray. Freddie Gray died under the custody of people who swore to serve and

protect him. Freddie Gray died as a victim of a system of racism that dehumanizes black men, and people are rightfully
upset about that. Black people in this
country are exhausted of being treated
as second class citizens in a nation their
ancestors built, and so riots and protests
have broken out.
Im referencing this event to show
that there are people in this country who
are rising up over something they care
about. Perhaps some are skipping class
or missing work. But they are dedicating
themselves to a social issuesomething
more Bowdoin students need to do.
I dont intend to undermine the actions of many students on campus, and
their dedication to whatever it is that
they care about. Many students here
are doing meaningful things every day.
And if people want to unwind, they
should do so.
I am singling out Ivies because it
goes beyond unwinding. It is a gluttonous exercise, and it takes a ton of
energy and money to plan and participate and recover from. Bowdoin
would look like a much more productive and relevant place if students
placed less importance on Ivies, and
more importance on real issues.
When we work hard and play hard,
we leave no room to think deeply.
And what is going on in America right now deserves our deepest
thought.

Broken windows are not broken spines Remembering the best

ANOTHER
WHITE GUY
JAMES JELIN
Freddie Gray lay on the ground
with a few police standing near
him. They pulled him to his feet. He
screamed as they dragged him into
the police car. One of the officers
yelled walk! at him. Sometime in
the next half hour, while he is in police custody, 80 percent of his spine
was severed at his neck.
Soon after, the Governor of Maryland declared a state of emergency
and activated the National Guard to
combat the rioting.
Last Thursday, The New York
Times reported this as Demonstrators gather in Baltimore over Freddie Gray arrest, death. On Monday,
the New York Post said Crips and
Bloods team up to take out Baltimore cops. On Tuesday, President
Obama condemned rioting and
called the participants criminals
and thugs.

McKessons narrative
is less about the rioters, and
more about the conditions
of police brutality that
instigated the riots.
These headlines reflect what we
feel about the events in Baltimore.
There is a quiet battle being waged
on the frontier of our opinions, and
we need to be critical of the way that
language is used to manipulate us.
Last Wednesday, Baltimore Police
Union President Gene Ryan likened
the Baltimore protesters to a lynch
mob. This comparison has been applied to Ferguson protesters by the
likes of Fox News, Mike Huckabee
and conservative pundit Laura Ingraham. They ironically tried to

reappropriate our hatred of racism

for the sake of dehumanizing black
protesters. These words are bullets
fired at the oppressed, and if nobody
fights back, they will strike.
DeRay McKesson 07, the community organizer who recently
spoke on campus, was interviewed
by CNN on Tuesday. The interview
quickly became a fight over linguistic control of the story.
Anchor Wolf Blitzer probed
McKesson, telling him, I just want
to hear you say that there should be
peaceful protests, not violent protest, in the tradition of Dr. Martin
Luther King. Blitzer tried to make
the narrative of Baltimore into a
story of violent protesters who even
the reasonable community organizer denounces.
McKesson refused to bite, reframing the issue around the police violence: Think about the 300 people
that have been killed [by police] this
year alone. Theres been property
damage herebut remember there
have been many days of peaceful
protest.
McKessons narrative is less about
the rioters, and more about the conditions of police brutality that instigated the riots.
Finally, he left us with a simple
but powerful image: Broken windows are not broken spines.
Im inspired to see McKesson actively oppose the efforts of the press
to manipulate its audience. Im inspired to see him use concise, persuasive language, factual examples,
and poetic imagery to remake the
meaning of a national story. Most of
all, Im inspired to attend the school
where I imagine he developed many
of these skills.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said
and that a riot is the language of
the unheard, that it is the reaction
of a people who are neglected and
voiceless. Uplifting voices, then, is
the solution to rioting.
No longer does a voice necessarily require moneyin the age of
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Up-

worthy and Buzzfeed, we just need

to be interesting and effective communicators to be heard. We, liberal
arts students, are spending four
years being trained to do just that.
We take science and reasoning

Im inspired to
see McKesson actively
oppose the eorts of the
press to manipulate
their audiences.
classes to learn to use logic and data.
We study history, sociology, anthropology, Africana studies, gender
and womens studies and more to
understand the context in which
these events occur. We take writing seminars, English classes and
art classes to learn to communicate,
persuade, and move people.
It is our responsibility to take
what we are learning and apply it,
to use our voices to uplift those who
have not had the opportunities that
we have.
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the
most popular American book of the
19th century on our campus. Nine
months after Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. delivered his legendary I Have
A Dream Speech, he spoke here at
Bowdoin, where students from his
alma mater would often spend an
exchange semester. Eight years after
graduating, DeRay McKesson is using Twitterand now CNNto reshape the meaning of the Baltimore
riots as you read this.
More than ever, we find ourselves
in a media war. If every one of us
chose to engage in this nations history and in the fight to seek justice,
we could be an army of change that
would reach into every aspect of
American society and would recreate the conversations our nation
has about race. The lives of men
and women like Freddie Gray are
on the line.

four years of my life

HOME IN
ALL LANDS
JEAN-PAUL HONEGGER
If words were miles, my columns
would very nearly wrap around the
world. Ive penned 23,994 words since
my first Orient column was published in September 2011, and I have
grappled with a wide range of issues,
from my hatred of the penny to Swedish trash incineration, the symbolism
of divestment and the death penalty.
Sometimes I have come across as too
harsh in my criticism of the U.S., and it
may have seemed as though I was like
so many Europeans: convinced that
this country should just listen to and
accept the wisdom of its Old World
cousins. In truth, if I criticized the US
it was because I believe this is a country with boundless, untapped potential
and it frustrates me to see what I know
are wasted opportunities.
It reassures me, then, to know that
I will be graduating alongside close to
500 people whose time at Bowdoin has
prepared them to do exceptional things.
I am also pleased to be graduating with,
so to speak, a man who has done a great
deal to advance the cause of his college
and of the liberal arts education. Barry
Mills may not be liked by everyone in
the Bowdoin community, but he should
be, at the very least, commended for
sticking to his principles. Like President
Mills, we have gained the skills to challenge preconceptions and advocate for
our own knowledge.
As our time at Bowdoin winds
down, I find myself wondering how
my peers and I will remember the best
four years of our lives. When we meet
again in years to come, what will be the
moments that defined our Bowdoin?
What will we take away from the small
liberal arts college with the cult-like sun
symbol? We will all be leaving with dif-

ferent memories of this place: some are

positive, others less so. I know seniors
who couldnt be happier to be leaving
and I know seniors who undoubtedly
will be crying at graduation, shedding
tears for an end that came too soon.
However we may feel about our time
at Bowdoin, we are all brought together
and separated by the memories we
have made here. I cant say that I will
miss the smell of the pines, or a sweaty
party in the basement of a social house,
or swimming in Greason pool, or the
creak of the floorboards in the room
on the top floor of Massachusetts Hall;
those experiences are not my Bowdoin.
My Bowdoin is late evenings working in the Shannon Room, the musky
scent of old LPs in the WBOR studios, a
breeze on the quad on a hot September
day, going to class on skis, stargazing
through a telescope in the fields behind
Farley. Each of us has created our own
image of Bowdoin: for all the commonalities that bring our graduating class
together, it is the differences that have
made our Bowdoin exciting.
As Eric Edelman wrote two years ago,
there is little use in agonizing about what
might have been: so what if Ive never
taken a psych class? So what if you never
climbed Katahdin? When we walk up
to receive our diplomas in three weeks
time, we should do so without regrets.
We cannot be burdened by our mistakes: let the past remain there and may
our success carry us forward. These
four years have given us extraordinary
tools to take on new challenges and I
am excited to see what the Class of 2015
will make of the confused and chaotic
world beyond the Bowdoin Bubble.
Friends, it has been my pleasure getting to know many of you since we first
assembled on the quad at the end of
August four years ago. I wish you all the
very best, wherever you may go. Thank
you for making this, truly, the best four
years of my life. Good-bye for now, and
good luck.

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the bowdoin orient

friday, may 1, 2015

MAY

EMMA ROBERTS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

STORY TIME: MacMillan House residents Monique Lillis '17, Henry Quinson '17 and Pat Toomey'17 enjoy English Professor David Collings' entertaining story which embodies the theme, "A time I was wrong," for the house's final Polar Bear Tales event
of the year. Polar Bear Tales is an informal space where students and faculty can gather to share stories.

FRIDAY

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T SALMON, TURKEY REUBEN

M FRIED CLAM ROLL, PIZZA

67 T ROAST TURKEY, BEEF STEW

45 M MAC & CHEESE, FRIED CHICKEN

SUNDAY
RELIGIOUS SERVICE

Co-Founder of Downeast Cider House Ross Brockman will

speak about small business and the microbrew industry.
Reed House. 4:30 p.m.

The Chapel. 7 p.m.

71 T BBQ RIBS, LEMON CHICKEN

53 M JERK CHICKEN, HAMBURGERS

MONDAY

The Bowdoin Film Society will screen the horror movie

about three film students who disappear while filming a
documentary about a local legend, the Blair Witch.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.

FILM

"Plastic China"

FILM

"Miss Representation"

Howell House will screen the documentary about gender

representation in popular culture.
Howell House. 7 p.m.

Filmmaker Wang Jiang will host a screening of her film

which depicts how the world's plastic waste ends up in
China and negatively affects its water and food supply.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.

SATURDAY

Spring Music Sampler

Students who take private music lessons for credit will

share their semester's work in a performance.
Room 101, Gibson Hall. 4 p.m.

"The Blair Witch Project"

EVENT

Chapel Service

FILM

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T QUESADILLA, MUSSELS
M MAC & CHEESE, VEGGIE CURRY

TUESDAY

57 T FISH TACOS, PORK CARNITAS

40 M GARDEN BURGERS, ENCHILADAS

Conductor Robert K. Greenlee will lead the Bowdoin

Chamber Choir in a program of American spirituals, as
well as music from France and the Netherlands.
The Chapel. 3 p.m.

Internationally acclaimed photographer Abelardo Morell

'71 will discuss his photography project on Maine's
winters as a creative response to the relationship
between winter and climate change. Following his
lecture, there will be a reception at the Bowdoin College
Museum of Art.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 4:30

EVENT

PEFORMANCE

Students will celebrate the end of the semester with a

Great Gatsby-themed semi-formal.
David Saul Smith Union. 10 p.m.

Student run dance-clubs, including Arabesque, Vague

and Obvious, will perform in a final recital of the year.
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 8:30 p.m.

Spring Gala

HOLIDAY

PERFORMANCE

A Capella
Concert

BREAK

Student Dance Club Show

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BREAK

Honors Day Celebration

Assistant Professor of Sociology Ingrid Nelson will deliver

an address titled "Breathtaking Opportunities," for the
ceremony. There will be a reception for students and faculty before the event at 6 p.m. in the lobby of Studzinksi
Recital Hall.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinksi Recital Hall. 7p.m.

67 T CHICKEN TERIYAKI, EGG ROLLS

48 M MONGOLIAN CHICKEN, MUSSELS

THURSDAY

"Growing Maine's Next Economy"

"A Mind of Winter"

Bowdoin Chamber Choir

EVENT

LECTURE

LECTURE

PERFORMANCE

68 T MEATLOAF, ACADIAN RED FISH

45 M TURKEY STEAKS, SALMON FRITTERS

WEDNESDAY

EVENT

Downeast Cider Comes to Reed

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EXAMS

Finals Begin

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President of Envision Maine Alan Caron will lecture on his

role in a nonpartisan organization devoted to
developing policies that promote Maine's economy
through entrepreneurship.
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 12:30 p.m.
EVENT

Bowdoin and the Common Good:

A Celebration of Community

In this symposium, students will share their projects of

community engagement with issues in education,
poverty, social justice and sustainability. Refreshments
from local eateries will be served.
David Saul Smith Union. 3:30 p.m.

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