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Amended
ordinance
could spell
trouble for off-
campus living
By James Callahan
Orient Staff
At its meeting on Monday, the
Brunswick Town Council passed
an amendment (8-1) to the towns
disorderly property ordinance that
intends to crack down on repeat
offenders of the ordinance. The
amendment extends the reset
period for disorderly homes from 60
to 270 days.
The existing disorderly property
ordinance was passed by the town
in 2008 and allows Brunswick Police
Department (BPD) to cite properties
as disorderly if they are causing
problems for neighbors, according to
BPD Commander of Support Services
Mark Waltz. After a third citation,
BPD can issue the landlord a fine
between $500 and $1,000.
As it stands under the current
ordinance, if your house is a disorderly
house it would get a notice and then,
after 60 days, if youve been good,
you would start the process over.
This [amendment] would extend that
process out to 270 days, said Town
Manager John Eldridge.
I would ask that we take this vote
tonightI think were coming up on
party season, said Brunswick Town
Councilwoman Jane Millett last
Monday night.
Waltz said that one off-campus
residence where Bowdoin students
live was cited both in the fall and
earlier this semester. However, since
the 60-day period had expired, the
second warning counted as the
first. By extending the reset period,
the amendment will provide more
opportunities for student houses
to be cited as disorderly within
the timeframe.
Waltz supported the amendment,
Please see TOWN, page 3
College removes several housing options for 17-18 Community remembers Renata
By Rohini Kurup
Orient Staff
The Housing Lottery opened on
Monday with several changes in hous-
ing options for the 2017-2018 academic
year. Cleaveland Street Apartments will
no longer be offered as student housing;
one-bedroom triples in Brunswick Apart-
ments will revert back to doubles and the
fifth floors of Osher and West Halls will
no longer be available to upperclassmen
in order to eliminate quints in the first-
year bricks.
The College was able to reduce the
number of beds available through the
lottery because of the new off-campus
housing policy, which caps the number
N HELEN ZIA
Acclaimed journalist and activist spoke
during Asian Heritage Month. Page 5.
THE NATIONS OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY PUBLISHED COLLEGE WEEKLY
TAI CHI: Master Zhong Xuechao leads a workshop of Wudang Martial Arts in Morell Gymnasium on Sunday. Xuechao is a 15th generation
disciple of Wudang Sanfeng Kung Fu who has been practicing Kung Fu since he was six years old. His visit kicked off Asian Heritage Month.
J-Board appointments released after oversight
By Jono Gruber
Orient Staff
Yesterday, the new student appoint-
ments to the Judicial Board (J-Board)
were released to students, staff and fac-
ulty in an email from Associate Dean of
Upperclass Students Lesley Levy. The
new members were informed of their ac-
ceptance on February 22, but due to an
administrative oversight, the rest of the
College was not informed until this week.
The J-Board publicizes its member-
ship in order to help make its hearings fair
and honest.
It is important to notify the commu-
nity each year regarding the names of the
student members of the Judicial Board, so
that the entire Judicial process can be as
transparent as possible, wrote Levy in an
email to the Orient.
As the new members cannot act on
cases until the 2017-2018 academic year,
the delay in notification will not affect the
boards transparency.
In total, the board accepted seven new
members: three sophomoresKamaal
Palmer, Anarelis Ramirez and Cody To-
descoand four first yearsGrace Fen-
wick, Emma Kellogg, Sam Langan and
Anais Leroy. With only four graduating
seniors this year, the J-Boards size will
Ledwick for creativity, kindness
of students living off-campus to 200. Be-
cause students who will live off campus
were required to register with the College,
the Office of Residential Life (ResLife) can
plan out the exact number of beds that
students will seek in the lottery.
Cleaveland Street Apartments, a three-
story building that houses 14 students
in triples and quads, will not be a part of
the Housing Lottery. Director of Housing
Operations Lisa Rendall said the apart-
ments were removed because they are old
and expensive.
As we start looking to our residential
future and looking at the money we are
putting into our spaces, and some of our
spaces are older than others, given the
number of studentsnot very many live
F SPINDLEWORKS
A Brunswick organization creates a
space for disabled artists. Page 6.
increase from 12 to 16 students next year.
The decision to increase the size
of the J-Board was a deliberate one,
and advertised by Levy in her email
announcing the opening of the J-Board
application on January 20. With more
members, the board can more easily avoid
conflicts and better accommodate the
caseload and its members other pursuits.
The primary reason for the increase
is to accommodate Board members
who study abroad or take other leaves
of absence, and because there have been
more Judicial Board cases over the past
two academic years, Levy wrote.
Twenty-four cases were referred to the
J-Board during the last academic year.
If there are any conflicts of interest it
is a practical benefit that we have a larger
group to select from, said Chair of the J-
Board Mike Pun 17.
Pun also emphasized that expanding
the J-Boards membership can make its
makeup more diverse, something he be-
lieves is invaluable.
[More diversity] allows for more
distinct views and perspectives to be on
the Board and I think that is definitely a
good thing, Pun said. Theres not really
one Bowdoin experience and to be able
to get a Board that can be as representa-
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at Cleaveland Streetit just made sense
to take that building offline, Rendall said.
Ben Troen 17, a current resident of
Cleaveland Street Apartments, agreed
with the decision to take the apartments
off the lottery. While the location and
amenities made Cleaveland Street desir-
able to him and his roommates, they have
since encountered an ant infestation, a
mice problem and plumbing issues.
Please see LOTTERY, page 4
A INSIDE OUT
Formerly incarcerated youth share their
experiences through theater. Page 9.
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EZRA SUNSHINE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
tive as possible of all the different types of
Bowdoin experiences that are out there is
something that we definitely strive to do.
The new members will be tasked with
hearing cases concerning the Colleges
Academic Honor Code and Social Code
and several said that they hope they can
help shape the Bowdoin community and
maintain those values.
I really liked Bowdoins commu-
nity when I was applying, so I feel like [I
wanted to apply] to come up with a com-
munity standard and make sure everyone
is being a valuable member of the com-
munity, said Palmer. I feel like, for those
who arent being a valuable member of the
community, making sure that they have
proper tools to be able to become those
valuable members [is important].
He emphasized the importance of
considering all factors of an individu-
als situation.
I always want to make sure that if
somebodys intent wasnt to do wrong,
that that was definitely taken into
consideration, said Palmer. For instance
if somebody went to a bad high school and
didnt really have to write a lot of papers
and they were confused on plagiarism ...
making sure that that was fully taken into
consideration.
By Claudia Pou and Emily Weyrauch
Orient Staff
Renata Formo Ledwick, artist and for-
mer assistant director of alumni relations
at Bowdoinknown and loved by many
students and alums through her involve-
ment with Reunion Weekend and re-
gional alumni event workpassed away
on March 18 after a four-year battle with
cancer. She was 42 years old.
Ledwick was known to both friends
and coworkers as an unflagging posi-
tive spirit and a creative soul with a great
sense of humor. She came to Bowdoin 14
S NOT HORSING AROUND
Carly Lappas 17 placed second at
equestrian regionals. Page 12.
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APRIL 7, 2017
Lohmann
returns to
restructured
Deans Office
By Emily Cohen
Orient Staff
Janet Lohmann will return to Bowdoin
to become dean of students, a new posi-
tion in the Colleges administration, on
July 1 after serving as dean of students at
Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio for one
year. Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster
reported Lohmanns appointment in an
email to the College on Monday.
Lohmann will replace Senior Associate
Dean of Student Affairs Kim Pacelli, who
announced in December that she will
leave the College at the end of June. The
new role of dean of students is part of on-
going efforts by the College to restructure
the Office of Student Affairs.
In her new role, Lohmann will lead
the College in hiring staff to fill three
other positions in the Office of the Dean
of Student Affairs that are currently held
by interim deans. The deans, Interim As-
sistant Deans for Upperclass Students Ab-
bey Greene Goldman and Michael Pulju
and Interim Dean of First-Year Students
Melissa Quinby, will continue in those
positions for another year as the College
conducts national searches.
Lohmann is looking forward to return-
ing to Maine and Bowdoin, where she had
been for 14 years before taking the posi-
tion at Kenyon. Most recently, she served
as dean of first-year students at Bowdoin.
Maine is a very special place for me. Its
where my heart resides, and Im thrilled to
be coming back to the community that I
care about deeply and colleagues who I
am excited to reconnect with, she said.
I think I needed to step away from Bow-
doin to return to Bowdoin.
As Dean of Students at Kenyon, Lohm-
ann oversees the health and counseling
services, as well as the Office of Student
Rights and Responsibilities, which assists
in making decisions about violations of
the colleges expectations and policies.
In her new position at Bowdoin, she will
oversee the colleges Title IX program in
addition to Health Center and Counseling
Please see LOHMANN, page 4
years agoafter growing up in Minnesota
and attending St. Olaf Collegedrawn to
Maine by a desire to paint the oceans.
She wanted to create beauty, wanted
to create friendship, wanted to be part of
a community, wanted to be by the ocean,
wanted opportunities to bring art and
beauty into her home and friendships and
children and yard, said Director of Resi-
dential Life Meadow Davis, who first be-
friended Ledwick when their then-infants
attended the Bowdoin College Childrens
Center together.
Please see LEDWICK, page 4
O BIAS IN THE BATHROOM
Ian Ward 20 discusses the complexity
of last weeks feces incident. Page 14.
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34 Farm animal 47 Daze
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SECURITY REPORT: 3/29 to 4/6

Wednesday, March 29
A feminine hygiene products waste re-
ceptacle was vandalized with human feces in
a Smith Union restroom.
A faculty member reported that a stu-
dents submitted paper, placed in a mailbox
at Hubbard Hall, was defaced with a drawing
of a phallus in red ink.
Friday, March 31
Melted chocolate in a microwave oven
caused a smoke alarm at Winthrop Hall.
Saturday, April 1
Brunswick police requested the as-
sistance of Bowdoin Security in locating
a vehicle that was involved in a hit-and-
run accident on Harpswell Road. The ve-
hicle was located and the incident is un-
der investigation.
Wednesday, April 5
A student with a medical condition re-
quested an escort to Mid Coast Hospital.
Brunswick Rescue transported a stu-
dent with a collarbone injury to Mid
Coast Hospital.
There was door damage reported at
Pine Street Apartments.
A staff member reported that a man
yelled something unintelligible at her from
a passing vehicle on Bath Road.
Security warned a local man to refrain
from further contact with students on cam-
pus after a female student reported an odd
encounter with him at the Hawthorne-Long-
fellow Library.
A student reported that two SD data
cards were missing from cameras in the me-
dia commons at Hawthorne-Longfellow Li-
brary.

Tuesday, April 4 Thursday, April 6

A student claimed responsibility for
possessing drug paraphernalia at Quin-
by House.
Administrative building fire drills were
held in conjunction with the Brunswick
Fire Department and Environmental Health
and Safety.
SOPHIE WASHINGTON
friday, april 7, 2017 the bowdoin orient
NEWS IN BRIEF BSG adds signs in mens bathrooms
COMPILED BY JESSICA PIPER AND LIZA TARBELL
as tampon investigation continues
MILLS TO BEGIN ONE-YEAR By Nell Fitzgerald
STINT AS UMASS CHANCELLOR
Orient Staff
After tampons and pads were thrown
away and feces was found in a menstrual
Former President Barry Mills will become the interim chancellor at the product receptacle in the mens bath-
University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass) effective July 1, after current room on the first floor of David Saul
chancellor J. Keith Motley announced his resignation on Wednesday. Smith Union last week, Bowdoin Student
Mills was named deputy chancellor and chief operating officer at UMass Government (BSG) altered the placards
Boston on March 2, signing a five-year contract. He left Bowdoin in 2015 placed next to the dispensers to clarify
after serving as president of the College for 14 years. their purpose. The College is continuing
UMass Boston is expecting to face a deficit of $30 million by July, the Bos- to investigate the incident.
ton Globe reported in March. Recent cuts have forced the university to lay Director of Safety and Security Randy
off adjunct faculty, reduce the number of course offerings and cancel library Nichols said in an email to the Orient
database subscriptions. Internal memos indicated that UMass officials had that Security had made good progress
been aware of budget problems since at least 2012. and that their investigation was still
UMass officials told the Boston Herald that Mills will not become perma- ongoing. He confirmed that there have
nent chancellor.
ResLife releases College House offers, waitlist
Motley will take a one-year sabbatical and then return to UMass Boston as
a tenured faculty member, the university announced.
By Salim Salim
IN RESPONSE TO PHISHING, IT Orient Staff
ADDS DUAL AUTHENTICATION
Students who applied to live in College
Houses for the 2017-2018 academic year
received decisions from the Office of
Dual-authentication for logging onto Bowdoin Information Technology Residential Life (ResLife) on Monday.
(IT) services such as Workday and Webmail with a Bowdoin username and Those who were offered a spot in a
password is now available to faculty, staff and students using a product called College House were required to respond
Duo. The effort comes in response to increased phishing and a January to their offers by Wednesday afternoon.
cybercriminal attack on faculty Workday data that changed direct deposit For the first time, some students were
information, according to IT Security Officer Eric Berube. He noted that placed on a waitlist, with the chance to
other institutions have seen similar attacks recently. be admitted to a House if other students
Currently, 381 users are enrolled on Duo and the technology protects rejected their offers.
11 applications and serves 808 endpointsdevices that are used for The decision to make College House
authentication, like a smartphone, Berube said. offers non-binding was a departure
Individuals can apply to activate two-step through a service request on the from previous ResLife policy. Assistant
IT homepage or by going to the IT service desk in Coles Tower. Director of Residential Life Mariana
The program works by sending push notifications to quickly approve sign- Centeno, who spearheaded the changes,
ons from the lock screen of smartphones, as well as from a variety of other wanted to give students more power
devices. Alternatively, users can enter a code via number generation. Two- in their decisions, although the system
step can also be completed using a token, known as a UB key, that can be also creates more moving pieces and
plugged into a computer, or users can receive a phone call on their mobile challenges for ResLife.
device or landline. Right now were going through these
The service is not required, and IT announced it only to a few groups, people who have turned down their offer,
although any student is allowed to use it. Only certain individuals, such as Centeno said. Round Two will be trying
managers who have the information of their fellow employees in addition to to figure out who we can move into the
their own, are required to use Duo for additional account security. Houses to fill the spaces.
She noted that the waitlist process is
not first-come, first-serve. Instead, ResLife
intentionally selects individuals off the
BPD STRUGGLES TO HIRE FOR waitlist in order to optimize dynamics in
each House.
OFFICER POSITIONS Were trying to find people who will fit
into the House that has a spot for them,
Brunswick Police Department (BPD) has a shortage of patrol officers
due to the departments struggles to fill vacant positions, WLBZ2 reported
on March 30. Police Chief Richard Rizzo said BPD has received only a few TOWN
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applications for four vacant positions.
Other police departments across Maine are experiencing similar problems. citing the record number of students
Over 20 police departments currently are advertising at least one open living off campus as cause of the
position on the website for the Maine Criminal Justice Academy.
Rizzo said the starting pay for BPD officers$41,200 for individuals with
increase in violations. He noted that
the ordinance has been used against
a high school diploma and $45,200 for college graduatesis around average other town residents in addition
compared to other police departments, according to WLBZ2. to students.
BPD is currently offering a $5,000 signing bonus for new officers. Its not that the students are
badits just that the lifestyle of a
student is different from the lifestyle
of a [Brunswick town] resident,
MOODYS GIVES COLLEGE
Waltz said in a phone interview with
the Orient. A lot of these families in
town want to be asleep by 9 [p.m.],
BONDS THIRD HIGHEST RATING or at least have the neighborhood
quiet, whereas a students night is
just starting.
Moodys Investors Service gave a Aa2 ratingthe third-highest rating Waltz met with College officials
it assignsto $45 million of the Colleges proposed bonds. The bonds will last Friday to discuss an increase
mature in 2047. Moodys also affirmed its previously assigned Aa2 rating in the number of disturbances
on approximately $264 million of the Colleges existing revenue bonds, reported this year. Two-hundred
according to a release by the agency on March 17. Moodys has given the seventeen students are currently
Colleges bonds this rating for several years. living off campus, a substantial
Bonds allow the College to borrow money by agreeing to pay the owner increase compared to previous
of the bond a certain amount on a certain date. Bonds with A ratings are years. Next year, only 200 students
considered safer investments, meaning the borrower is likely to pay the will be allowed to live off campus.
amount back. The community welcomes
The release cited that Bowdoin was expected to maintain solid operating Bowdoin students and loves to have
performance and strong fundraising to support programmatic and capital them here, Waltz said. I think theres
investments, as evidence that the College is likely to make its payments a lot of beneficial relationships, so
on time. the last thing I want to do is give the
been no further incidents since feces
were found in the receptacle on March
29 but declined to comment further.
In an email to the student body on
Monday, Associate Dean of Student Af-
fairs Allen Delong and Director of the
Resource Center for Sexual and Gender
Diversity Kate Stern spoke of the ad-
ministrations support for the Free Flow
project and reminded students not to
deface or damage dispensers, recepta-
cles, and other sanitary items. Individu-
als who were unsure about the purpose
of the items were encouraged to reach
out to Stern in order to understand why
trans* students might need menstrua-
tion products.
[and who] would also be happy in that
House, Centeno said.
On the waitlist, students are not
grouped in blocksrather, students
are selected off the waitlist individually,
and each makes their own decision as
to whether they would like to live in a
House. Centeno has been corresponding
with students on waitlists to understand
their preferences.
In the event that more students
declined their spots than the number of
students who are on waitlists, Centeno
said spots in College Houses would be
available during the Housing Lottery.
However, she said that ResLife would not
encounter such a problem this year.
We have a couple people who
declined and more than enough people
on the waitlist, Centeno said.
Howell House, the chem-free College
House, did not receive enough applicants
at the time of the initial College House
application deadline, but Centeno is not
concerned about filling the House. She
said ResLife received more applications
after extending the deadline and
clarifying that the House is chem-free
and that more spots were being filled
this week.
The waitlist was not the only change
to the College House process this year.
During the first round of College House
applications, students could apply alone
or as a block of up to four to any College
The thing that students want to keep
in mind is that the parts that disturb
the [Brunswick town] residents are the
parties. Try not to have those, certainly
not after 9 [p.m.].
BPD COMMANDER WALTZ
message that we dont want to have
students in the community, because
to the contrary, we want students
in the community. The thing that
students want to keep in mind is that
the parts that disturb the [Brunswick
town] residents are the parties. Try
not to have those, certainly not after
9 [p.m.].
Housing owned by the College has
never been given a warning since the
ordinance allows the police chief to
refer incidents within a particular
institution to the institutional
security department, such as the
Office of Safety and Security. Millett
argued that this provision allowed the
College to unfairly avoid receiving
disorderly house notices.
They have neighbors who are
citizens and taxpayers as well, she said.
Waltz defended the provision and
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BSGs new signs likewise hope to
educate bathroom users. The signs now
read: We realize that many men on
campus do not and will not need pads
or tampons in their lifetimes. That said,
Bowdoins bathrooms are not spaces
exclusively for those who identify
as male. Free Flow products are
available here for the trans* and gender
nonconforming visitors and members
of the Bowdoin community who use
this bathroom and menstruate.
I think we had a responsibility to
insert those placards, since its true that
we hadnt really explained to people why
the dispensaries were there, said BSG
President Harriet Fisher 17.
House. In the past, at least one member
of a block of students had to have been
affiliated with a House in order for the
block to apply there.
While some students were fond of
this change, others worried that it would
perpetuate stereotypical identities of
each House.
[By] taking away applicant restrictions,
[ResLife] made it easier for everyone who
fit a traditional type of HouseBaxter
having all athletes and Reed having all
[Bowdoin Outing Club] people, said
Sabrina Hunte 20, who will be living in
Baxter House next year. Now that results
have come out, I can see that the ResLife
staff tried to mix it up.
Beatrice Cabrera 20, who is planning
to live in MacMillan House next year,
appreciated the opportunity to apply to
any House.
I like the new policy changes,
Cabrera said. [It] means that people
dont make random friend groups just
to get into their favorite House and
that people are actually applying to the
houses theyre interested in.
Overall, Centeno felt like the process
went well.
From reading the applications, it
seems like people were really happy to
be able to apply to Houses they werent
affiliated with and happy with their
agency in choosing which Houses theyd
like to be considered for, she said.
BPDs relationship with Bowdoin
Security at the meeting.
That was a compromise put in 10
years ago, said Waltz. [Bowdoin]
Security does do a good job of holding
people accountable.
He added that disorderly conduct
violations at off-campus houses are
not referred to Security, although they
are reported to the College.
However, not all council members
supported the amendment.
Councilwoman Sarah Brayman
called the new provision excessive.
It seems a little reactionary,
she said.
In particular, Brayman took
objection to how the extended reset
period could put the fall semester
tenants of a house at a disadvantage if
the spring semester tenants of the same
house had run afoul of the ordinance.
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TEDx event to explore Common Ends
By Horace Wang
Orient Staff
The ending of the Offer of the
CollegeAnd to cooperate with
others for common endsserves as
the inspiration for Bowdoins first-ever
TEDx event entitled Common Ends,
which will take place Sunday at 11 a.m. in
Kresge Auditorium.
We decided on Common Ends
because its vague enough where we
can attach many different ideas to
it, said Kevin Trinh 19, president of
TEDxBowdoin and the events lead
organizer. The idea is that ideas can come
from a bunch of different disciplines and
that theyre all interconnected.
The talks delivered at the event will
follow the rules outlined by the TEDx
organization, including that they
cannot have a political, business or
socio-economic agenda and that they
cannot be argumentative in nature. In
accordance with TEDx policy, speakers
are not paid and only 100 individuals
are allowed to attend.
Tickets are now sold out, but Trinh said
individuals may be admitted on the day of
the event if seats become available. Fewer
than half of the students who applied
to deliver talks were accepted. One of
the three student speakers, Hideyoshi
LOTTERY
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The place is kind of falling apart. Its
grimy, which we didnt really know going
in. Then we had all these other issues, [that]
have certainly put a damper on my and
my roommates situation, Troen said. Its
an old dorm and I think we stand by the
decision of the College to not put other stu-
dents through what I experienced.
A second major change is that the
one-bedroom triples in Brunswick Apart-
ments will be reverted back to doubles.
The new configuration means that nine
full apartment complexes will be entirely
made up of double apartments, allowing
eight students to block together within the
same building.
Several students agreed with ResLifes
decision to revert the forced triples to
double apartments.
I think its a great idea to change
Brunswick because that [would be] defi-
nitely a tough living situation, said Kinaya
Hassane 19.
The fifth floors of Osher and West
Halls, previously available for upperclass-
men housing, will revert back to first-year
housing. This change will eliminate first-
year quints and allow for the eight bricks
to be made up exclusively of first years.
Sadie Saxton 20, who lives in a first-
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Services. This position does not include
oversight of Residential Life, as Pacellis
position as senior associate dean of stu-
dent affairs does.
The dean of students [position] al-
lows me just a larger lens to look at the
student experience, and to work with
key partners in the deans office and
Health and Counseling to ensure that
what were doing for students is meet-
ing their needs, Lohmann said.
Lohmann described her experience
at Kenyon as transformative, explain-
ing that the more professional posi-
tion allowed her to play a greater role
in making decisions and being a leader
among her colleagues.
The transformation has happened
in that I have a stronger voice. People
are really looking to me to make certain
decisions on behalf of the students, she
said. I am so appreciative of Kenyon for
Akai 19, will address his thoughts on
the current generations relationship
with technology.
I feel like the presence [of
smartphones] is so dominant in our
society and because technology has
become so accessible to a lot of people
we never really question our relationship
or ponder their effects upon our actions,
said Akai. And I observed some strange
or questionable behaviors that were
caused by smartphones.
Akai cited experiences in his hometown
of Tokyo as the inspiration for his talk.
When I get on a train, every single
passenger is on their phone, and when I
see them its a very strange scene to me,
said Akai. I felt very strange about what
I was seeing and thats when I started
wondering why I find that very strange,
and then I kind of started exploring what
really bothered me.
The events organizers sought to recruit
faculty, alumni and prominent Mainers.
One of the speakers, Visiting Assistant
Professor of Physics Juan Burciaga will
speak about the liberal arts.
I think the environment [at Bowdoin]
is a really good match for who I am and
what I want to do, said Burciaga. I
started studying the liberal arts, asking
myself how does it work? What are the
liberal arts? How do we plan our courses?
year quint, said she did not mind her liv-
ing arrangements and did not believe the
removal of quints will have a large impact
on next years first years.
I do think there are some quints that
have a lot of conflict with spatial issues or
cleanliness which can cause a lot of prob-
lems. But I dont necessarily think those matching that we said we really wanted to
things wont happen in quads, Saxton said.
However, Saxton thought removing
quints would make housing more fair.
It definitely was a little bit frustrating
to hear that there were rooms with three
people in a quad and we were all crammed
in the same space with two more people
than they had. So I guess it would be nice
to avoid that situation, she said.
For West and Osher it makes sense
that upperclassmen arent living in those
buildings anymore, said Ryan Sanborn
18. [I]t doesnt make sense for upper-
classmen to be living on the top floor of a
first-year brick.
Some students expressed concerns
about the effects of the reduced spaces on
students lottery chances to live in their
desired rooms.
I think it will be more of a competitive
process for housing and for everyone to
get into their top choices, said Swapnika
Mallipeddi 19.
The lottery will also not include the
Leap of Faith option, in which ResLife
giving me this opportunity.
Foster echoed Lohmann, citing the
new skills and experience she gained at
Kenyon as beneficial.
Even though it was a short tour
there, its amazing how much you can
learn and grow when you break away
from where youve been, to do some-
thing new and different and be exposed
to a whole different way of thinking, a
way of approaching the work, he said.
Lohmann held various positions at
Bowdoin before leaving for Kenyon.
Initially a visiting assistant professor of
sociology in 2003, Lohmann became
assistant dean of student affairs in 2007
and then associate dean of student af-
fairs and dean of first-year students in
2008. She was also interim senior as-
sociate dean of student affairs for four
months while Pacelli took family leave.
Lohmann was a leader in starting the
Bowdoin Advising Program to Support
Academic Excellence (BASE), an initia-
tive to support first-generation students
the bowdoin orient
How can we best prepare students for the
future?
Both Akai and Burciaga felt that TEDx,
which is a new club at Bowdoin this year,
gave them a unique opportunity.
If I were to stand up and give a normal
lecture in the liberal arts, I dont think
it would draw much of a crowd, said
Burciaga. But in a TEDx format, I think
people would come just because its a TED
format. I think it gives you an audience
thats willing to listen.
Akai echoed a similar sentiment,
adding that the chance to present his ideas
with an audience and the possibility of this
talk being shared online is special for him.
Being able to communicate my ideas
in front of people, to be able to speak
for this very well-known, prestigious
organization, and the possibility of my
talk being on a TEDx YouTube channel
and the lead for my idea can be shared
with a larger community is very special,
said Akai. Im giving a talk because I
think my ideas are worth spreading.
The events speakers are Akai, Burciagi,
Julianna Courard-Hauri 18, Danielle
Horne 20, Vice President of Marketing at
Lego Michael Moynihan 89, Mainer and
Former Senior Foreign Policy Adviser
to the House of Representatives Caitie
Whelan and President and CEO of Maine
Coastal Botanical Gardens Bill Cullina.
paired roommates together, using a meth-
od similar to matching first-year room-
mates.
Two years ago, when Leap of Faith was
introduced, not many people signed up.
Even though we made it work, I feel like
we didnt have a big enough pool to do the
ways, which were going to miss, said Ro-
do for people. I think that turned into some
unsatisfying housing. I think for some, they
really enjoyed it and it was a good match,
but for others it wasnt what they were look-
ing for or hoping for, Rendall said.
To fix this issue, last year ResLife set a
bar for the minimum number of students
to sign up at 50 in order for Leap of Faith
housing to proceed. According to Rendall,
ResLife did not come close to this mini-
mum requirement and decided Leap of
Faith was not popular enough of an op-
tion to justify its continuance.
In a pilot program, ResLife will also be
focusing more on the sophomore expe- searcher. She would get an image of what
rience at Stowe Hall, Howard Hall and
Pine Street apartments, all predominantly
sophomore housing spaces, with the goal
of building a sense of community for soph-
omores outside of the College Houses.
I am hopeful that that is going to be
something that will be more robust as the
years go on, Rendall said.
The first housing lottery will take place
on Monday, April 17.
in their transition to college, among
other projects that have continued at
the College.
Lohmanns role as dean also included
consulting with students who were con-
sidering taking a medical leave from the
College. As the Orient reported last se-
mester, several Bowdoin students have
expressed past frustration with Lohmann
who, at times, encouraged students to take
medical leave when they had not consid-
ered all of their options.
Austin Goldsmith 18 is one of the stu-
dents with whom Lohmann consulted
about the possibility of medical leave
after she got a concussion playing vol-
leyball. Goldsmith did not end up taking
medical leave. She explained that while
the situation was frustrating because she
felt powerless in the decision-making
process, she appreciated the support that
Lohmann demonstrated after she recov-
ered from her concussion.
Im not going to say that was a great
experience, but I think what I love
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She was really one of those people who
just brought beauty everywhere, said Da-
vis. Not everyone would think of Alumni
Relations as a place where you could bring
art and beauty, but Ren really did.
She had this happiness, this creative
spirit that really made us think in different
with her, said Davis. I think some people
die Flaherty Lloyd 80, director of alumni
relations, who worked closely with Led-
wick for 10 years.
This sentiment was widely shared by
those who knew her.
Everything Ren did had Renatas
touch on itnothing was run of the
mill, said Associate Director of Alumni
Relations Sarah Cameron 05, who also
worked closely with Ledwick. Ren never
just churned something out.
She was adventurous in the typical
wayssailing and hiking and travel-
ingbut also in the sense that she was a
she wanted something to look like and she
would search until she found just the right
thing, said Davis. You saw this in her art-
work and how some of her art was painted
on cabinet doors rather than canvases and
you saw it in her home, where each object
has a meaning.
Ledwick was known as a truly genuine
mother, friend and coworker. She did art
projects with her two children and read to
about Dean Lohmann was that she fol-
lowed up with me as a person and had
conversations with me as a person,
Goldsmith said.
Although she said that Lohmann is
generally perceived on campus to be
a positive force, Goldsmith believes
that the decisions that Lohmann had
to make due to her position created a
negative connotation.
Even though you dont like the de-
cisions she makes, shes still a great
person, said Goldsmith. I feel very
strongly about that.
Sarah Steffen 16, who took a medical
leave during her first year after consult-
ing with Dean Lohmann, agreed that
students perception of Lohmann is al-
tered by her position as a disciplinarian.
I think that not everyone has a posi-
tive experience with the deans office in
general, and I think thats normal, Stef-
fen said. I think its important to have
really strong people with a lot of integ-
rity in those positions, and I feel like she
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them every night, had a love for gardening
and interior design and made friends easi-
ly with everyone from baristas to alums to
people in Brunswick, bringing smiles and
laughter with her through the world. She
personally created floral arrangements
for each 25th Reunion class with flowers
from her garden.
Her kindness and her generosity and
positivity were things that she just brought
are a different person at work and a differ-
ent person at home, and I think with Ren,
she was the same person at both of those
places.
We could not have had the successful
program of events that we did all those
years without her hard work, support,
and wisdom, wrote Abbot Kominers 78,
former president of the Bowdoin Club
of Washington, D.C., in an email to the
Orient. Renata was also my friend and a
genuinely good human being.
Ledwick lived with her husband Chris
95 and her two children in Brunswick.
Renata was a wonderful friend and
coworker and was a mother that I deeply
admired, said Davis. Her family was
absolutely at the center of her world and
Chris and the kids brought her such joy
that whenever she would talk about them
her face would light up, said Davis.
Renata never had a mean word about
anybody. She always saw something re-
deeming, something good, said Lloyd.
Thats just how she saw the world.
does. But I hope people can see that.
As part of the ongoing restructuring
efforts, a new position, the assistant dean
of students for community standards, will
be added to the Office of Student Affairs.
This new position will be responsible for
addressing and resolving violations of
the Colleges Academic Honor Code and
Social Code. The new dean will also be
Advisor to the Judicial Board, a role cur-
rently held by Associate Dean for Upper-
class Students Lesley Levy. Lohmann will
assist the hiring process for this new posi-
tion as well.
The structure of the deans office is
going to look different, and my responsi-
bilities are figuring out what that structure
looks like and how we can work most ef-
ficiently, said Lohmann.
Foster said he is looking forward
to seeing Lohmann take on these
new responsibilities.
This role will be very different, he
said. Now shell come in and really lead,
and so Im really excited about that.
friday, april 7, 2017
Zia discusses activism,
journalism, coalitions
across identity groups
By Artur Kalandarov
Orient Staff
Journalist and author Helen Zia dis-
cussed her career as an activist and the
future she envisions for America at a
talk entitled Building Bridges Across
Communities in Kresge auditorium on
Wednesday. The event was sponsored by
the Asian Students Association as part of
Asian Heritage Month.
Zia spoke about how legislation in the
1960s allowed for more diverse immigra-
tion to the U.S. and argued that the pres-
ent was also a critically important time
for the country.
It is a most important time to be ex-
amining your place in the body politic.
We really are standing on the threshold
of major global changes, she said.
Zia cited demographic changes that
will soon lead to a United States with
no majority racial group and discussed
global economic developments as rea-
sons for the result of the 2016 election
but encouraged students to remain
hopeful.
There is nothing straight-lined about
history at all. It moves in zig-zags and
swings, Zia said.
She talked about the struggles of
growing up as a Chinese-American in
the 1960s.
When I was a kid, growing up in New
Jersey, I was like an alien from Mars, Zia
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said, I did not have much of a Chinese
community to connect with.
She noted divisions among minority
groups during her early years as an activist.
Social change and bringing people
together to do something big is always
work, Zia said. It has always taken an ef-
fort to cross boundaries with other com-
munities, and to reach out.
Zia was a leader in the effort to prose-
cute the two men responsible for the mur-
der of Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American
who was killed in a Detroit suburb in
1982. She discussed how this initiative
brought together the Asian community.
Out of a terrible hate crime one by
one different groups of Asian Americans
actually did come together for the first
time in American history. A national
civil rights movement came out of it,
Zia said.
As a member of the LGBTQ commu-
nity, Zia spoke about how surprised she
was that gay marriage was legalized in
her lifetime.
I thought, Marriage? Thats never go-
ing to happen for me ... There were people
in the LGBTQ community who thought
Why are we fighting for this? We are
never going to win, Zia said. We have to
begin to imagine that world, where justice
and equality and human dignity prevails.
Moving forward, Zia encouraged stu-
dents to continue fighting for the causes
they believe in.
the bowdoin orient
BUILDING BRIDGES: Journalist and author Helen Zia delivers a talk on Wednesday. Zia was invited as part of Asian Heritage Month.
We dont know what historians
are going to write about 2017, but
make no mistakeit is your time,
she said.
Students responded positively to
the lecture.
I think its really important to have
these kinds of conversations, said
Fiona Doherty 20. Im glad she was
chosen to speak on campus.
Erin Harris 20 said the talk was en-
couraging and inspiring.
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It made me want to get more in- and building peace coalitions and
volved, said Harris. I hope people solidarity across communities, rather
get more involved in communities than just in the Asian-American com-
they arent directly affected by. munity, she said. I think its really
President of the Asian Students important to celebrate and recognize
Association (ASA) Mitsuki Nishi- our different histories and how they
moto 17, said Zia was the perfect fit intersect.
to speak at this years Asian Heritage In previous years, ASA celebrated
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talk about Asian-American issues in the celebration this year in order to
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Spindleworks fosters connections through art
By Isabelle Hall
Orient Staff
The non-profit organization Spindle-
works gives 48 local artists with dis-
abilities the tools they need to succeed in
Brunswicks creative community.
Located on Lincoln Street, Spindle-
works is a studio and gallery for these art-
ists and their creations.
At Spindleworks, a staff of seven pro-
fessional artist mentors helps partici-
pants develop their artistic skills in a va-
riety of media including writing, painting,
drawing, pottery, sculpture, animation,
filmmaking and musical theater. The cen-
ter also provides artists with the opportu-
nity to display and sell their work in local
shows. Several Bowdoin students volun-
teer each year.
I like to be in every show because it
helps me, said artist Kim Christensen.
Because people will get to know who
I am, what kind of work I do People
will say I bought your tea towels. I bought
your paintings from a show. Theyll know
who you are. Its good to get out in the
community because yes, I have a dis-
ability. Yes, Im a good artist. And people
love coming here because they say, Wow,
your people can do beautiful artwork.
Spindleworks supports artists of ages
18 to 80, some of whom have been mem-
bers for as many as 30 years.
Theres something about watching the
process of people grow over time, and it
can be a slow change, said Associate Di-
rector Brian Braley. They may start out
not being comfortable and wanting
to erase everything that they try to draw.
But after a few months ... when somebody
sells their first work of art, just to watch
their smile and how that affects them is
really incredible.
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Braley said that Spindleworks strives to
empower its artists.
I think when you can turn what their
entire life theyve thought [of] as their de-
fect, what their disability is, when you can
turn that into their strength, and when
they realize that those things that they
struggle with actually are what make them
stronger or make them unique, I think
that transformative value is really power-
ful, said Braley.
Christensen said she feels at home at
Spindleworks, where she has been a mem-
ber since 2006.
[Spindleworks is a place where] you
can do your artwork, be who you are
and be an adult with a disability, said
Christensen. Thats nice. Some states
dont have [this kind of program]. And I
think its wonderful Maine has it.
However, the maintenance of such an
organization presents certain challenges.
Were serving more artists now than
we did when I first started, and theres
constantly a threat of funding cuts in some
way, said Braley. Were funded primarily
through the state and so I think weve re-
ally focused on trying to find new ways of
expanding revenue so that we can con-
tinue the program. My long-term goals
are just thinking about sustainability and
making sure that this program is around
10 years from now.
According to Braley, there is still work
to be done regarding the full acceptance of
artists with disabilities in Brunswick.
I would like them to be considered
and valued for their professional abilities
as artists, said Braley. I think Brunswick
has always generally been an accepting
community, but I dont think that were at
a point where the work here artistically is
valued the same.
Liz McGhee 89 started working at
HOME IS WHERE THE HE(ART) IS: Spindleworks is a non-profit organization that creates opportunities for Brunswick artists with disabilities.
Professional artists serve as artist mentors and work with the local artists to develop their artistic skills. Spindleworks is on Lincoln Street in Bruns-
wick and provides an opportunity for Bowdoin students interested in art to get out and help the community in a unique and meaningful way.
Spindleworks in 2002, where she served as
a program director for more than 13 years.
I think that having that role there,
for which I was completely unprepared,
but enjoyed anyways, was probably the
highlight of my career, said McGhee in a
phone interview with the Orient. I think
nothing will be able to compare with my
time at Spindleworks, and I still think of it
as my home and my family.
McGhee said she regrets that she did
not discover the organization until after
she had graduated from Bowdoin.
It was astonishing to me that, as a
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From the festive purple-pink can to the
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Before we go on to fully rave over this
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this beerits unavailability. It is season-
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you go to the Bissell Brothers Facebook
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releases like a much-sought-after band
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managed to buy this because he is friends
with Dan, the owner of Uncle Toms; there
are people who line up in order to catch
this beers release. It is currently only avail-
able in the state of Maine, and even here it
is a rare sight. At $16 for a four-pack, this
is not a cheap beerbut considering that
there are bars where you may pay $10 for
a pint of Stella Artois, it is well worth your
Bowdoin student in the art department,
I had no knowledge of this program that
existed, said McGhee. I hope that more
students will come down the hill and not
make the mistake that I made by sitting
atop because theres so much going on at
Spindleworks.
Today, Spindleworks welcomes both
visitors to the gallery and volunteers to
the studio.
[There are] so many ways that some-
body could play a role there, said Mc-
Ghee. Some of my most loyal volunteers
were not art students. They were people
alcohol money for the amount of flavorful
joy it contains. If you can get your hands
on some, try it.
When poured into a glass, this rye
ale was a dark golden color, like a good
mango. It mysteriously appeared to have
no sediment (neither in appearance or
in taste), and it was clouded with almost
no head. The smell was a distinct, lovely
combination of grapefruit and mango.
Although we highly recommend savor-
ing this beer for its mind-blowing taste, it
was a light beer and went down smoothly
at a 5.1 percent ABV. The mouthfeel was
smooth and buttery, with just the right
amount of carbonationneither flat nor
painfully fizzy. In fact, were it not for the
price and availability, it would be very
possibly a beer to smash.
We are at a loss to describe this beers
taste, especially without the aid of our
taste graphs, for the nuanced taste is what
really distinguishes this beer out from the
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are nothing out of this worldthe taste
you would expect from a very good, light
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of LUX. Then, after the initial taste fades
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climactic turning point catapults this beer
from a good to a great: a remarkably
strong fruity sweetness bursts into flavor,
even though we had long finished swal-
lowing the beer. Furthermore, the after-
taste kept on developing and slightly shift-
ing flavortrue beer magic at its best. Eva
Sibinga 17, our guest taster, was struck by
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that just cared about people and wanted
to be a part of what was going on.
This summer, Spindleworks will be
hosting a show at Frontier Cafe called the
Extinction Event, celebrating the diverse
species of the planet. A portion of the pro-
ceeds will be donated to the Maine Audu-
bon Society.
The Spindleworks gallery and store are
open Monday through Friday from 8:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The artists enjoy discuss-
ing their work with visitors and are on site
from Monday through Thursday from 9
a.m. to 2 p.m. and on Friday until 1 p.m.
the beers aftertaste but also by its malti-
ness. The malt was not overwhelming but
present enough to give the beer a definite
sweet kick, nicely balanced out by the ini-
tial hoppiness. Eva also noted that this was
the ultimate beer for a hammock, saying,
The beer is a stand-alone on its own, that
I would only need a slight, mindless activ-
ity to supplement it. The tropical over-
tones of this beer would indeed pair well
with a hammock.
In short, this is the beer of not only
your spring dreams but a solid all-year-
round tropical haven. Who needs a warm
vacation resort when we have LUX beer?
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
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Tonights Toast: A wise man once
said, I would even vomit up this beer to
be able to experience its phenomenal
taste twice. Be inspired: go and drink a
beer that gives you such joy from taste
alone.
Conclusions on LUX Rye Ale:
Appearance:
Smell:
Taste:
Mouthfeel:
Smashability*:
Overall:
*Would have been 5/5 if not for price
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INTERVIEW LESSONS
I have the voice recordings from every
interview I have conducted as an Orient
reporter. At last count, I had 105, an aver-
age of slightly more than two interviews
per week. They occupy a non-negligible
portion of my phones memory space.
The first time I interviewed someone,
I cried in the stairwell of Kanbar Hall af-
terward. This outcome wasnt shocking
conversation has never come naturally to
me, whereas I am fairly experienced in
semi-public crying.
During high school, my innate shy-
ness devolved into something worse. I
eschewed haircuts for a year because I did
not want to make small talk with the styl-
ist; I cried uncontrollably for half an hour
if I had to make a phone call; I couldnt rid
myself of a weird urge to pull the steer-
ing wheel on my way to school every
morning. I couldnt hang out with friends
unless I knew everyone who would be
there; I stopped ordering coffee after the
barista made me feel awkward one time;
attending my senior prom was out of
the question.
My first therapist introduced me to the
phrase social anxiety disorder. It is a real
thing; I Googled it.
With time, help and practice, I started
to get better. I learned to order coffee
and make phone calls without letting my
anxiety overwhelm me. I discovered that I
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could experience feelings besides dread
and despair, and I began to think of my-
self as something other than awkward and
dysfunctional. I got my hair cut before I
left for college.
Learning to function in the face of
anxiety was important, but it didnt get
me everything I wanted. Life is more than
ordering coffee and calling people on the
phone. Friendship is more than a series of
non-awkward interactions.
My mental health is better now than it
was a few years ago, but college is tough
sometimes. I still get nervous when I talk
to athletes, smart people, people who are
older than me, outdoorsy people, preppy
people, people who seem to have a lot of
friends, artsy people, people from Mas-
sachusetts, people who have their lives to-
gether and anyone who starts a conversa-
tion with me when I am not expecting it.
I skip dinner more often than I would
like to admit because texting people to
make plans is scary. I have shown up at
professors office hours only to stand in
front of their door and decide that my
question is not important enough to jus-
tify bothering them. I dont know how to
tell a cute guy at a party that I might panic
if he moves closer. Kanbar is not the only
academic building in which I have cried.
Amidst these struggles, interviews be-
came a comfortable way for me to talk
with people. I email someone asking to
chat; they usually say yesand if they
decline, its not personal. We arrange a
place and time; I look people up using the
student directory and Facebook so I can
recognize them. I write questions in my
spiral notebook beforehand. I know
the bowdoin orient
DISABLED, OR HOW I LEARNED
TO STOP WORRYING AND
LOVE MY BRAIN
Living at school with a disability is
tough. As someone who survived a brain
infection three years ago and had to re-
learn to read, speak and walk without fall-
ing, I know my fair share of what tough is.
During the past two years, I was at home
doing nothing but focusing on recov-
ery and rehabilitation. I attended weekly
group rehabilitation with other adults
with brain injuries (from strokes, trauma,
aneurysm, etc.) and settled into a routine
with people who work and experience life
at the same pace as me. While at home in
the real world, I regained my confidence
and new sense of self despite now living
with hearing loss, mild mobility issues
and mild cognitive impairment. By sum-
mer 2016, I was finally approved (not to
mention beating the doctors expectations
by a couple years) to return to Bowdoin as
a full-time student.
Coming back to Bowdoin was big news
for me because in my eyes, I could finally
become a normal young adult again.
While it was great to come back, being
at Bowdoin proved to be much more dif-
ficult than I initially imagined. At home,
my peers were mostly adults who have
settled well into life, but up here, my peers
are all young, active and ambitious (whose
intense lifestyle no doubt befuddles any-
one over the age of 40). Coming back to
school meant revisiting an environment
where the pre-brain injury me would
feel at home. To the new me, however,
how to make polite small talk before div-
ing into the actual interview topic. We
have a conversation; I write an article;
they go on with their life.
One hundred and five
interviews is a lot. No
one has made me cry
since that first time.
Ive talked with
athletes. Ive talked
with people who
have their lives
so put together
it scares me.
Ive talked
with artsy
people
about their
art and
smart people
about their
research,
which
goes way
over my
head but
I write the
article any-
way. Some
people have
taken time out
of their days
to give me their vital opinions on the
weather or Jacks Juice Bar; others have
been open, honest and vulnerable with
me about really difficult subjects.
These people make me want to be open
about my issues too. Because the biggest
lesson I have learned from interviews is
that Bowdoin students are often dealing
living here is a slap-in-the-face reminder
that I am disabled.
Outside the brain injury community, it
is little known that the greatest challenge
during recovery is not the long, arduous
process of rehabilitation, but the struggle
to come to terms with your current state
of existence (as the new you). This jour-
ney, very critical in the recovery process,
is fraught with depression, anger, denial,
despair and often thoughts of suicide. This
part of the recovery process still strikes a
raw nerve within me every time I come
across old photographs of my days as an
athlete or reminisce with my friends about
our cherished moments in high school. I
came to Bowdoin as a swim recruit and a
straight A student, goddammit, not as a
guy who cant walk more than 10 minutes
outside without the support of a leg brace
and who needs the use of assistive tech-
nology to compensate for my memory
and cognitive impairments.
Being at Bowdoin, I see the person I
would have beenpartying, playing var-
sity sports, participating in God knows
how many extracurricular activities while
(oddly) having enough energy to com-
plain about how much work I have with
everyone else. This is a living, breathing
reminder of how I imagine the old me
wouldve been. No matter how hard I try
(and yes, I try), I can no longer be like the
typical active young person. To survive, I
have to make my own adjustments and
create my own college experience.
Having a damaged brain that can no
longer take in so much stimuli without
hours of nausea, headache and feeling
downright horrible, I live by my noise
with way more than we let show.
I still get nervous when I meet some-
one for an interview. I dont know if my
anxiety will ever really go away, but I am
starting to be OK with it. The individu-
als I talk with each week remind me that
Bowdoin is full of passionate, thoughtful
people who are willing to share their time
and stories with a perpetually nervous
features 7
cancelling earphones and find strategic
seating during meals to minimize the
noisy, crowded environments. I avoid
large group hangouts because, with my
hearing difficulties, I can only keep track
of so many lips. I fatigue easily from cog-
nitive tasks (including speakingthe
act of taking thoughts and using vari-
ous cognitive tools we take for granted
to produce a comprehensible sentence
to whomever the receiving party is), so
I limit the activities I do every day based
on how I feel. Sometimes this means
none. For these reasons, every party
or school event requires a serious cost-
benefit analysis. I dont have any concept
of how much work is involved in taking
four coursesthree is a mighty-enough
struggle for me, all things considered,
thank you very much. On certain days
when Im blown out, I just lay down and
stare at blank walls for the entire day. Its
quite an isolated life and totally sucks
at times, but Im having a ball with the
few great friends I have here. (Please see
The Statler Brothers song Flowers on
the Wall). I imagine some people may
perceive my compensatory strategies as
anti-social, some odd quirk or think I
look and act fine (not knowing I put
in two hard years to look so good). But I
guess its slowly starting to stop bother-
ing me. What empowers me is meeting
and knowing other fellow students out
there who also struggle with disabilities
and have their own hidden stories and
odd behavioral quirks to share. Some
of them may even be a good friend
of yours.
Ben Wu is a member of the Class of 2018.
CAROLINE CARTER
reporter. Theyve taught me that being
anxious doesnt make me dysfunctional.
As long as I know that, I can figure the
rest out.
Jessica Piper is a member of
the Class of 2019.
8 features the bowdoin orient friday, april 7, 2017

POLAR EYES

AMPED UP
Ten student bands played in front of a raucous crowd at Jack
Magees Pub and Grill last night in Bowdoins Battle of the Bands.
Jazz fusion group 20/20, comprised of Hannah Jorgenson
20 (right), Nate Blum 20, Dylan Hayton-Ruffner 20, Joshua
Brooks 20, and Parke Aiken 20, won the competition, earning
the chance to open for Smallpools at Ivies.
By Ann Basu

See the full photo essay online at bowdoinorient.com/amped-up

friday, april 7, 2017
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Inside Out theater group brings formerly incarcerated youth to Howell
Simon Chow
Orient Staff
This past Tuesday, Howell House
hosted Maine Inside Out, a nonprofit
group founded in 2007 with the goal of
empowering currently and previously
incarcerated youth through theater.
The members performed compelling
acts on topics like police brutality, rac-
ism, xenophobia and the school-to-
prison pipeline. Phrases like When
schools neglect, the streets accept,
rang throughout the performance, giv-
ing the audience a personal perspective
from the inside out.
The effort to bring Maine Inside Out
to campus was led by Interim Assistant
Dean for Upperclass Students Abbey
Greene-Goldman, Director of Writ-
ing Project Kathleen OConnor Howell
House member Mackenzie Schaefer
19 and Diamond Walker 17.
America places this huge empha-
sis on education as the key to suc-
cess, said Walker. But a huge reason
why the performers didnt succeed
was because they werent being heard
and seen in school There was one
particular performer who said when
the schools neglect, the streets accept.
And I just thought, thats so real. When
school doesnt relate to a kids life, of
course theyre going to be disengaged.
In addition to providing a theater
platform for its members, Maine Inside
Out also offers leadership positions,
various forms of emotional support
and a stipend for members to create
art. Margot Fine, co-director and co-
founder of Maine Inside Out, men-
tioned that the original intent of this
organization was to empower through
agency and transformative justice.
They have been a family, a struc-
tured group or place I can go to when
everything else in my life was crazy
and not stable, said Sofia McMullin, a
Spoken word poet and activist Olivia Gatwood to speak on feminism, sexual assault
Elizabeth Fosler-Jones
Orient Staff
With poems ranging from Ode to
My Resting Bitch Face to Manic Pixie
Dream Girl, feminist spoken word poet
Olivia Gatwood will confront topics of
sexual assault, rape culture and gender
inequity tomorrow evening in a perfor-
mance in culmination of the Alliance of
LIKE A GIRL: Feminist spoken word poet, activist and educator Olivia Gatwood will perform on Saturday evening in coordination with the
Alliance for Gender and Sexual Assault Preventions annual Date Week programming.
member of Inside Out.
For the months I was drinking
[every day], I always made it to ev-
ery single Maine Inside Out meeting.
They brought me to the hospital when
I needed it. They gave me love, food,
stipend, money. They were there for
me. I eventually came out of it, Im
still going strong every day. Theyve
given me family and theyve given me
hope and theyve given me a voice,
added McMullin.
Another member of Inside Out
spoke of structural issues with mass
incarceration and the long term ef-
fects that juvenile detention has
on youth.
Everyone makes mistakes, the
only ones that go to jail are the ones
that get caught. To box someone up
like a caged animal for years, that is
not the way to go. It messes them up
mentally, it changes who they are, it
makes them more angry at society,
remarked Abdulkadhir Ali, a mem-
ber of Maine Inside Out.
Following the performance, the
floor was open to the audience to
ask questions; the performers en-
thusiasm permeated the audience,
prompting bouts of laughter, raw
moments of personal storytelling
and opportunities for reflection for
everyone involved.
As the members of Inside Out
concluded their performances, Ali
stood up at the front and left an im-
portant lesson for the audience.
We are a reflection of who you
are, he said. Now, do you see me?
The audience in Howell House,
filled with students, faculty and
town members, absorbed this pow-
erful moment of reflection before a
standing ovation.
I think this by far is one of the
most powerful things Ive ever ex-
perienced, right in front of me, said
Sexual Assault Preventions (ASAP) an-
nual Date Week programming.
Date Week is a week long campaign
that focuses on promoting healthy rela-
tionships and preventing gender violence.
ASAP invited Gatwood to add variation
to the usual programming of panels, art
shows and information sessions they have
hosted over the past week.
The conversation of healthy rela-
YOUTH FIRST: Members of Maine Inside Out perform on Tuesday evening in Howell House. The group, which serves currently and formerly
incarcerated youth from the Biddeford, Lewiston and Greater Portland areas, told their stories through dance and song.
Marisa OToole 17.
According to Walker, the personal
stories and perspectives shared on
Tuesday evening provided an op-
portunity for Bowdoin students and
faculty to connect with the people
that they read about in their studies
but may not encounter in their day-
to-day lives.
I was afraid we could get too
academic with this topicwe could
learn about it and feel bad but not
tionships and sexual assault is a very
important one and I dont think its
normalized enough, said Madeline
Hall 17, co-leader of ASAP.
She has a really lovely blend of us-
ing humor, but also powerful language
to bring people into the conversation,
added Lisa Peterson, Associate Direc-
tor of Gender Violence Prevention
and Education.
PHOTO COURTESY OF OLIVIA GATWOOD
do anything about it, Walker said.
Because people at this school dont
really have the human connection
with this topic I want people to
recognize that there are many sec-
ond-class citizens in this world and
as we go on in our careers, its im-
portant to fight for their voices as
well.
Ali added to that sentiment, not-
ing the importance of community
and the need to avoid ostracizing
According to Peterson, Gatwood
manages to break down complicated
ideas, like rape culture, in an acces-
sible way, allowing for a deeper un-
derstanding of the subject.
She uses art as a medium for ac-
tivism, added Hayley Nicholas 17,
co-leader of ASAP. It can be very vis-
ceral. I think that will really hit home
for a lot of people.
Gatwood began writing poetry in
high school as an emotional outlet to
work through issues she cared about.
Over time, she discovered she loved
writing and performing her poetry
and began to speak about issues that
were important to her.
She now performs slam poetry and
hosts workshops, primarily at high
schools and colleges, five days a week
as her full-time job.
I started to figure out what schools
were needing by way of education ... So,
sexual assault prevention and Title IX
compliance, Gatwood said in a phone
interview with the Orient. Then, I just
curated my show to cater to that.
According to Gatwood, she strives
to live by the same values she de-
scribes in both her work and day-to-
day life by creating safe physical spac-
es where she performsfor example,
she tries to perform in spaces with
gender neutral bathroomsas well
as acting as a counselor for those who
reach out to her.
I try to be there as much as hu-
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ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
those around us.
From [the students] perspec-
tive, try to notice the people that
are hurting, maybe your classmates,
maybe your family members, or
whatever. And try to comfort them.
They are just lonely, they need a way
to open, some poeple are closed in.
Thats why theyve been like that
their whole life. At least you can
give that easy helping hand or smile.
Help any way you can, said Ali.
manly possible and act the way I
speak, said Gatwood.
Gatwood also works as an educator
in sexual assault prevention and recov-
ery. Often times, she said, the complex
topics related to gender and violence
are difficult to understand and Gatwood
strives to unpack smaller, unnoticed acts
of violence.
I hope to notice the more nuanced
ways that we experience gender violence
in our world, said Gatwood.
My ultimate goal to is move us away
from purely thinking about gender vio-
lence prevention in behavioral terms
and expanding to thinking about it in
cultural change terms, said Peterson.
Im hoping that shell challenge students
in thinking about what cultural change
does mean.
In the future, Gatwood wants to con-
tinue her work in the prevention of sexu-
al assault and promotion of healthy rela-
tionships, while also writing more about
love and relationships of every kind.
Love is often really trivialized, espe-
cially when women poets write about it
and I just sort of want to combat that and
start thinking of how we make ourselves
smaller in relationships and how we can
stop doing that, said Gatwood.
Following a workshop at 30 College
on Saturday from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., Gat-
wood will perform at 8 p.m. in Kresge
Auditorium. Tickets are free and avail-
able at the David Saul Smith Union in-
formation desk.
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Concert band to honor late professor Elliott Schwartz Challenging stereotypes
BITTERSWEET SYMPHONY: Former Robert K. Beckwith Professor of Music Emeritus Elliott Schwartz. Schwartzs life will be honored on
Sunday evening at the Bowdoin College Concert Bands final concert of the spring semester.
Alyce McFadden
Orient Staff
When former Robert K. Beckwith
Professor of Music Emeritus Elliott
Schwartz hired Director of the Con-
cert Band John Morneau in 1988, he
commenced 30 years of friendship and
contemporary composition with the
Bowdoin College Concert Band. On
Sunday, the band will perform a concert
in honor of Schwartz, who passed away
in December 2016.
Director of the Concert Band John
Morneau chose to dedicate the con-
cert to Schwartz in honor of the late
composers contributions to Bowdoins
music department. Schwartz was a
member of the Bowdoin Faculty from
1964 until 2002 and remained actively
involved with the concert band and stu-
dents in the music department until his
death. Schwartz was also a renowned
composer known for experimenting
with traditional styles of classical music.
[Schwartz] really challenged people
to think outside of the norm and to
think of pieces in a different way, Mor-
neau said.
The concert will feature several pieces
that keep with Schwartz unconvention-
al style, including a piece composed by
Schwartz; however, Morneau designed
the concerts program to challenge audi-
ence members to expand how they per-
ceive the composer by including more
Office Hours to perform in NYC festival for second year
Sarah Bonanno
Orient Staff
Office Hours, Bowdoins longform
improvisation group founded by
James Jelin 16, has been selected for
a second time to perform at the Del
Close Marathon, a festival hosted by
Upright Citizens Brigade Theater
(UCB) that brings 72 hours of un-
interrupted, nonstop improv to New
York City for one weekend in June.
The majority of Office Hours
members have not received pro-
fessional training. The festival will
give Office Hours a chance to con-
nect with the broader improv com-
munity and work towards accom-
plishing one of the more technically
challenging longform styles, called
a Harold.
As part of its application for the
festival, Office Hours submitted a
15-minute clip from its Valentine
Days show, Love Hurts and wrote
a bio of the group.
Its so exciting to bring this
thing that we do between the eight
PHOTO COURTESY OF GEORGE H. MITCHELL DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
traditional pieces that reflect Schwartz
interests and inspirations.
Elliott was a contemporary com-
poser, said Morneau. He pushed the
boundaries for whats possible in per-
forming music and exploring music.
The band will also perform a three-
part suite composed by three Bow-
doin alumni and former students of
Schwartz, Francis Kayali 01, Yui Su-
zuki 01 and Scott Vaillancourt 92.
Each of the pieces parts employs a
compositional technique that Schwartz
used: the composers assigned indi-
vidual pitches to each of the letters in
Schwartz name and used these pitches
throughout the suite.
It wasnt just writing a piece for
him, it was writing a piece of him,
Morneau said.
Suzuki is an Associate Professor of
Biological Sciences at Wellesley Uni-
versity and composes music as a hobby.
He remembers a composition class that
Schwartz taught as one of his favorite
courses from his time at Bowdoin. Su-
zukis section reflects both his positive
memories of Schwartz and sadness
about his death.
Its got this mix of sadness and
also happiness, he said. It starts off
as sort of mourning and grows to
convey the growing influence he had
throughout his life, and it becomes
bright and celebratory.
The final piece in the concerts pro-
of us in Brunswick and bring it to
the epicenter of improv and just be
around all these other nerds who
love it as much as we do, said So-
phie de Bruijn 18, co-leader of Of-
fice Hours.
In preparation, Office Hours has
been rehearsing Harolds, a long-
form style invented by Del Close
and brought from Chicago to New
York by UCB. In a Harold, there is
a suggestion from the audience that
becomes the basis for three different
scenes upon which the rest of the
scenes build. The show ends with
the three original scenes connecting
in a final scene.
[Harolds are] the most fun to
watch as an audience member be-
cause its so fun to see the math of it
and its very complicated. Its techni-
cally very difficult to do so you have
to have a really strong base in other
principals of improv in order to do
it, but hopefully were getting there, and most fun and cathartic art form
de Bruijn said.
Doing a Harold is like building to be around other people who love
the plane while its flying already in
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gram, Pineapple Poll, was composed
by British composer Sir Arthur Sul-
livan. Morneau included it in the pro-
gram to reflect Schwartz affection for
British music and culture, as well as his
residency at Oxford and Cambridge
Universities. Pineapple Poll was es-
pecially difficult for the band to master
because of its fast-paced tempo but has
become the musicians favorite, accord-
ing to Dhivya Singaram 17, who plays
the clarinet.
Its a challenge, and weve all climbed
this mountain together, Singaram said.
Were going to play it and its going to
be great.
Morneau hopes that the concert
will provide audience members with
an opportunity to reflect on Schwartz
life and legacy, whether they knew him
personally or not.
[Designing the program] has been
a wonderful experience because its so
personal, he said. We were friends
and colleagues, and that has made it
very special.
The Concert Band rehearses twice
a week and is comprised of a range of
Bowdoin community members, includ-
ing students, faculty and staff. Sundays
concert is the third and final concert of
the school year.
The concert will take place at 2
p.m. in the Studzinski Recital Hall
on Sunday.
the air, she added.
Office Hours uses the UCB Com-
edy Manual as its guide during prac-
tices. Only two of the eight members
of Office Hours have participated in
UCB-run workshops. Office Hours
works collaboratively to run practic-
es, though, and individual members
take turns coaching.
Justin Weathers 18 did not have
any improv experience when he
joined Office Hours last year and
does not describe himself as a the-
ater kid.
I think [improv] gives me a rea-
son to laugh throughout the week. It
has really big life skills that can be
derived from it and the third best
thing about it is the performance as-
pect of it, Weathers said.
De Bruijn encourages students in
New York this summer to attend the
festival.
I think that improv is the purest
and I love to do it and Im so excited
to do it, she said.
friday, april 7, 2017
and reading M. Butterfly
and inferior to the West.
Penelope Lusk M. Butterfly redraws these ste-
BOOK CLUB reotypes, pointing out the racism
involved in Western perceptions
of Asia, especially Asian women.
We come to Bowdoin to learn: Hwang mocks the classical mate-
about physics or Latin American rial in ways both subtle and blaring
studies; about what we want to be through the relationship between his
when we grow up; about the kinds narrator, Gallimard (modeled after
of people we want to be friends with the French diplomat), and his love in-
and the kinds of people we want to terest, the mysterious Chinese opera
be. We learn from our professors, singer Song.
from administrators and staff, from At times oblique and even humor-
our friends andespecially, I would ous in his critiques, Hwang makes
sayfrom our first-year roommates. his perspective clear through the
Victoria [Pitakong 17] and I shared words of Song: You expect Orien-
what has to be one of the smallest tal countries to submit to your guns,
bedrooms in the first-year bricks. and you expect Oriental women to
Our beds were close enough to easily be submissive to your men. Thats
touch hands across the chasm. Only why you say they make the best
one of us could really get dressed at wives. What is perhaps most
a timeit was impossible to open cutting about the
both the sets of drawers under our play is that none
beds simultaneously. of the white
Things I learned from Victoria in- men even come
clude: the basics of political science, close to denying such
the Thai custom of giving nicknames claimsit is clear that
and how to navigate the precarious- Gallimard expects ex-
ness of living with a new friend actly this submissive-
in a very, very small ness, that his adoration
space. She put up with Song comes from his
with my perpetually understanding of her as the
regenerating mess, perfect woman.
my constant search- The play is even more
ing for lost belongings complex than its witty and
and more than one night dexterous challenging of rac-
of tearsand for that ist stereotypes. Gallimard is a
I am always grateful. fascinating character:
We have both changed bizarre, obses-
remarkably since our sive and blind to
first year, but she many realities. The
remains one of play uses music from
the people on the classical score of
ALEX
this campus for WES Madame Butterfly
TFAL
whom I hold a L which under-
deep and complete respect. scores the clever
When I asked Victoria for a book parallels between
recommendation, she thought it over the two texts.
and then chose M. Butterfly, a play Gallimard
by David Henry Hwang. M. Butterfly calls Song
draws from two sources: firstly, the Butterfly even
true story of a French diplomat who as it becomes increasingly
fell in love with a Chinese opera sing- obvious that the plot is preparing to
er who was actually a male spy mas- twist (and twist it does).
querading as a woman and secondly M. Butterfly is brilliantit won the
the short story and opera which share Tony for Best Play in its first year on
a similar title, Madame Butterfly. Broadway, and just reading it, I was
Madame Butterfly is about a white taken by how shrewd, thought-pro-
sailor named Pinkerton who lands in voking and unpredictable the script
Japan and marries an adoring Japa- is. In reading M. Butterfly (and Ma-
nese womanhis Butterflywho dame Butterfly for context), research-
he then abandons her for a Western ing the history of Hwangs source
wife. The narrative is rife with racist materials and processing Hwangs
stereotypes of Japanese women and take-down of historic racisms, I also
constructs a version of the so-called remembered: I still stand to learn a
Orient as completely subjugated lot from my first-year roommate.

friday, april 7, 2017
Bates ends mens lacrosse six-win streak
By Julius Long
Orient Staff
After winning its previous six games,
the Bowdoin mens lacrosse team (6-
3, 4-2 NESCAC) was defeated by an
unbeaten Bates squad (9-0, 6-0 NESCAC)
on Wednesday. The gamewith a final
score of 13-12was extremely close with
neither team holding more than a three-
goal lead at any point in the match. The
Polar Bears led 12-9 with just under nine
minutes left in regulation but were unable
to hold off the Bobcats who scored four
unanswered goals to win the game.
The Polar Bears came into the game
as the underdogs looking to knock off
the No. 1 ranked team in the NESCAC
and No. 4 ranked team in Intercollegiate
Lacrosse Association Coaches poll.
Theyre really good. Theyve got a
ton of seniors that have been playing for
a long time for themthree or four-year
starters, Head Coach Jason Archbell said
before the game. I think they can put up a
lot of points and in a hurry. Itll be a really
big test for our defense.
The Polar Bear defense answered by
holding the Bobcats well below their
average goals per game on the season.
Goalie and captain Peter Mumford 17
ended the game with 12 saves, several
of which were emphatic and garnered
uproar from the crowd. Bowdoins face-
off specialist, Sam Carlin 19, dominated
his battle winning 16 of 28 attempts.
Some mistakes down the stretch
opened the game up for Bates to come
back and clinch the victory in the fourth
quarter. After conceding two quick goals,
the Polar Bears were called on an offside
penalty that gave Bates an extra-man
opportunity. The Bobcats then capitalized,
scoring the game-tying goal with 2:34 left
on the clock.
When you play good teams, theres
always things to learn from so as we watch
the film theres definitely some things we
can get a lot better at, said Archbell.
A chance to score his third goal and
regain Bowdoins lead came to Matthew
NESCAC event aims to increase number of women coaches
By Anjulee Bhalla
Orient Staff
Over the weekend, the Senior
Woman Administrators of the
11 member institutions of the
NESCAC put on the eighth Coaching
Symposium for Women, bringing
together female student-athletes
from across New England.
While the event doesnt happen
on a regular basis, Bowdoins Senior
Woman Administrator and Head
Field Hockey Coach Nicky Pearson
has been a part of organizing the
symposium and furthering its goals
of opening the door for women
interested in coaching for many years.
We try to educate them about
the profession and also to really
attract them to the profession,
said Pearson. And then to provide
a mentoring program so once they
leave the symposium, we stay in
contact with the participants and
try to be a resource and a mentor to
them as they try to pursue a career
in coaching.
A key focus of the day was how
to break into the male-dominated
profession.
There are quite a few challenges
SPORTS
KEEPING GUARD: Defender Ryan Kenney 18 and goalkeeper Peter Mumford 17 lead the Bowdoin defense in Wednesday nights game
against Bates (9-0, 6-0 NESCAC). Mumford had 12 stops against a strong Bobcat attack and caused two turnovers for the Polar Bears.
Crowell 18 in the last two minutes, but he
was unable to convert as he ripped a shot
against the woodwork. Bates controlled
possession after this and ultimately scored
the game-winner with 18 seconds left in
the game.
While the loss is disappointing, the team
has shown that it can overcome adversity
it rebounded from a 0-2 start to the season
with a six-game winning streak.
It definitely wasnt the start we wanted
to have, but we found a way to respond,
said Mumford. Guys worked hard,
that women face when theyre
applying for positions, said Pearson.
Theres more competition. When
women are applying for coaching
positions, the applicant pool in many
sports is going to be made up of not
only female coaches, but also male
applicants. Whereas I believe that
when theres a vacant position for a
male sport, then probably of 90% of
cases, the applicant pool is only going
to be male.
However, events such as this one
look to change that dynamic by
increasing the number of female
athletes interested in coaching as well
as countering the generally accepted
view that only men can coach men.
I met someone that was an
assistant coach for a mens basketball
program for 15 years or something
and hearing that experience of a
woman being a coach for a mens
program was really inspiring, said
Taylor Haist 17, a member of the
womens soccer team. Women are
just as capable of coaching men
and I was talking to her about this
graduate assistant program with
the mens soccer program, and her
response is basically just go for it,
the worst they could do is say no. It
the offense started clicking, the defense
buckled down and one win turned into
a few morejust kept focusing and
working hard.
The Polar Bears will have to continue
to find ways to win when they host
Connecticut College (5-4, 2-3 NESCAC)
on Saturday. Though the Camels have not
had as much success as Bates, the Polar
Bears are no less determined about this
game than the last.
Its a NESCAC game so its always
a tough, close, physical game, said
was really cool to see someone that
has that experience.
In addition to being female
athletes, NESCAC students face
their own set of obstacles, especially
if theyre interested in coaching at a
Division I level.
We talked about how its really hard
for DIII athletes to become DI coaches
because when youre recruiting for DI,
theyre looking for DI athletes who
played DI and understand it, said
Kate Kerrigan 18, a captain of this
years womens basketball team.
However, in hopes of helping the
athletes overcome these obstacles,
the symposium offered a number
of resources for the students. These
included a panel of young coaches
and keynote speakers like Sue
Enquist, who spoke at Bowdoin last
spring as part of the Leadership &
Empowerment through Athletic
Principles (LEAP) initiative by the
Athletic Department.
Haist has been playing soccer since
she was four and her passion for
positively impacting another persons
playing experience motivated her to
attend the conference.
It definitely exceeded my
expectations, said Haist. Hearing
KATIE BACALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Archbell. They do play a pretty physical
style. Its usually a pretty big physical
team so well certainly have our hands
full there too.
Conns defensive style will make for
a vastly different game compared to the
Bates match. The Polar Bears are almost
certain to have fewer opportunities to
score than they usually do, so capitalizing
on the ones they get will be crucial.
Bowdoin will host the Connecticut
College Camels tomorrow at 1 p.m. on
Ryan Field.
other coaches talk about their
experiences breaking into the
profession and how they were advised
to go about it, that was definitely
really insightful.
Since her Bowdoin athletic career
ended, Haists desire to continue
being a part of the future of the game
has only grown.
When my career ended, you
realize that it ends so suddenly,
said Haist. Is this how you want to
go out? So the opportunity to still
stay involved in the sport, but just
in a different role is something that I
definitely am in pursuit in.
The extensive experience of the
coaches at the symposium also
offered students a lot of insight into
the aspects of coaching that the
players arent always consciously
aware of, such as recruiting and
forming a team dynamic.
My biggest takeaway is that the
hardest part about being a coach is
building culture, but thats also the
most important part about being a
coach, said Kerrigan. So figuring
out early in your coaching career
what you want your culture to be like
and how youre going to go about
building it.
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HIGHLIGHT
REEL
Cool as ice. Kerri St. Denis 19,
goalie for the womens ice hockey
team, was named a New England
Hockey Writers All-Star after an
outstanding first season with the
Polar Bears. With six shutouts on
the season and a .954 save per-
centage that ranks second in the
league, St. Denis was also an All-
NESCAC Second Team selection,
along with defender Brigit Bergin
18 and forward Julie Dachille 17.
Going for gold. Jake Adicoff 18
won gold for the U.S. in the cross-
country skiing long distance event
at the Para Nordic Skiing World
Cup and Paralympic Winter Games
Test Event in Pyeongchang, South
Korea with a time of 1:00:16.9. Adi-
coff races for Bowdoins nordic ski-
ing team and previously competed
at the Sochi Paralympic Winter
Games in 2014 in the biathlon and
cross-country skiing events.
Come back kids. Womens
lacrosse bounced back from
a disappointing 12-7 loss to
league-leader Trinity (10-1, 6-0
NESCAC) with a hard-fought
10-9 win over Bates (6-5, 1-5
NESCAC). The win featured a
hat trick by attacker Hannah
Hirschfeld 18 and 11 saves by
goalkeeper Kayli Weiss 18. The
team will travel to Conn College
(1-7, 0-5 NESCAC) for its next
match tomorrow at noon.
Seventh inning rally. The base-
ball team will look to recover
from a tough 6-0 loss to South-
ern Maine (8-7) on Wednesday
in its first divisional series this
weekend. The Polar Bears will
face Bates (7-5, 3-0 NESCAC) in
a three-game series with the first
game today at 3 p.m. and the
next two at noon and 2:30 p.m.
tomorrow as they look to im-
prove their 6-9 record. While the
series was originally scheduled
to be at home, the teams will
be competing at Colby due to
unplayable field conditions.
COMPILED BY ANJULEE BHALLA
12 sports
Bruce Arena brings USMNT back from the brink
Eric Zelina
THE RELEGATION ZONE
Coming out of the first round
of World Cup qualifiers in the
Hexagonal, the U.S. Mens National
Teams (USMNT) hopes of
qualifying for the 2018 World Cup
in Russia were on life support, to be
generous. A home defeat by archrival
Mexico and an embarrassing road
shellacking by Costa Rica left
the USMNT four points behind
the automatic qualifying places.
Changes had to be made and
manager Jrgen Klinsmanns head
was the one to roll.
Post-Klinsmann, the team
needed a steadying presence: enter
Bruce Arena, the definition of a U.S.
Soccer legend. If there was a USMNT
Mount Rushmore, Arena would
at the very least be the architect,
if not claiming a spot for himself.
The winningest coach in U.S. Mens
history, Arena managed the team
previously from 1998 to 2006 and
steered the Yanks to their best
World Cup finish in the modern era,
reaching the quarterfinals in 2002.
A safe, if somewhat predictable,
choice, Arena turned out to be just
what the U.S. needed going into
a pivotal set of qualifiers against
Honduras and Panama.
Going into the Honduras match
in San Jose on March 24, Arena
and his men knew that anything
less than a victory and three points
on home soil would be a colossal
failure. A strong critique of Arena
in his first stint with the U.S. was
Lappas 17 advances to Zones after strong regional show Sailing team opens spring season
By Roither Gonzales
Orient Staff
After an incredible performance
at Regionals at Dartmouth last
weekend, the Bowdoin equestrian
team had its first rider in at least
four years qualify for the next level
of competition. Captain Carly
Lappas 17 took second place in
intermediate jumping and qualified
to advance to the larger and more
competitive Zone 1 championships,
which will be held at Mount
Holyoke tomorrow.
Captain Clara Hunnewell 17
also qualified for the regional
competition and placed third,
leaving her just shy of the
requirements to advance to Zones.
On average, the equestrian
team sends two or three riders to
Regionals, where they compete
against other schools like Colby-
Sawyer and the University of
Vermont.
After the regional level, Bowdoin
participates in Zone 1, which
comprises almost all of New
England. If Lappas performs well
at Zones, she has the potential to
qualify for National Championships
in Kentucky this May.
The teams increased success this
season has brought it more attention
and support.
The team hopes that this
newfound attention will help it
overcome an important setback:
its depth. Eight of the teams 14
members are graduating this spring,
making recruiting essential for the
teams future.
Ive gotten a few emails from
that he tended to field an overly
cautious and defensive team; it
seems he learned from his mistakes.
The U.S. team against Honduras was
strong in the midfield and eager to
get the jump on a compact and well-
organized Honduran side playing
five in defense. The talismanic Clint
Dempsey started up top as a second
striker behind Jozy Altidore; 18-year
old wunderkind Christian Pulisic,
last seen scoring in the Champions
League for Dortmund, formed
the point of a midfield diamond,
allowing Michael Bradley to control
play from his preferred deep-lying
central midfield role.
The U.S. stormed out of the
gate and blew the doors off the
Hondurans from the opening
whistle, scoring in the fifth minute
after strong build-up play put Pulisic
alone on goal and led to Sebastian
Lletgets first USMNT goal. After
a bit of a lull in the game, the U.S.
poured it on, with Bradley scoring
from deep in the 27th minute and
Dempsey finishing off a world-class
chip from Pulisic with a Honduran
defender draped all over him with
a rocket of a finish. Coming out
of the break up 3-0, the Yanks put
Honduras to the sword in the second
half, as Pulisic added a goal of his
own and assisted Dempsey for his
second, before Dempsey capped his
hat trick with an inch-perfect free
kick for a 6-0 final.
The story of the game was
simplicity. Arenas tactics were
a breath of fresh air for the U.S.,
stripping down the game plan and
allowing the skill players to excel
in their best roles. While Altidore
with best-ever finish at Graham Hall
BEST IN SHOW: Captain Carly Lappas 17 will move on to Zone 1 championships this week-
end at Mount Holyoke after placing second in the intermediate jumping event at Regionals.
students who are interested since
acceptances came out a week or two
weeks ago [and] hopefully there are
some [rising] sophomores out there,
said Lappas. Well never be huge,
but hopefully we can keep recruiting
people and people will be dedicated
to working together as a team. And
hopefully it will keep growing and
attracting more people.
Despite the individual competitive
nature of the sport, the team is very
tight-knit and supportive of each
other. The riders understand that
their individual performances are
significant not just for themselves
the bowdoin orient
didnt get on the scoresheet, he
played perhaps his best game in a
U.S. shirt, with exceptional holdup
and linking play as often the lone
striker when Dempsey dropped into
midfield to interplay with Pulisic.
Finally playing deep and freed of the
lofty responsibility too often placed
on him under Klinsmann, Bradley
excelled without having to do much
except disrupt the Honduran attack.
And then there was Christian
Pulisic. While Dempsey and his hat
trick stole most of the headlines
(and deservedly so), returning to
the national team when his career
looked to be in jeopardy after being
sidelined for club and country with
an irregular heartbeat, Pulisic was
the creative engine of the team. The
18-year old didnt look out of place
playing against a physical Honduran
side, pulling strings and playing balls
leading to his involvement in five of
the U.S.s six goals. The numerous
comparisons made between him and
Landon Donovan now seem unfair
to Pulisic, as hes already risen well
above Donovans level at 18 with no
signs of stopping.
The following game against
Panama on Tuesday in Panama City
was a very typical CONCACAF
affair, involving an awful pitch,
hostile fans and a physically
imposing Panamanian team. Thanks
to a moment of individual brilliance
from Pulisic again, fighting through
the formidable Roman Torres
and Felipe Baloy to square for
Dempsey to coolly finish, the U.S.
left with a 1-1 draw. While not the
most glamorous of matches, the
Yanks showed fortitude and mental
COURTESY OF CARLY LAPPAS
but their team as a whole.
I think with our team, its as
serious as you want to take it. So I
think its good to see upperclassmen
taking it more seriously and doing
well and being leaders for the
underclassmen, said Lappas. But
there is also a team component, so
depending on how every individual
performs at every show, you get a
team score. So in a regional team, if
theyre at the top, their whole team
moves on to the next level. I think
that motivates our entire team to
do well, so that our entire team can
compete in the next level.
toughness to scrap a vital road point
in a tough environment, leaving the
team with four points from four
matches in the Hex and in much
better position to qualify for Russia.
The two matches werent without
their share of issues for the U.S.,
however. Arenas decision to play
Jermaine Jones against Panama
was a bit puzzling, given his lack of
fitness and recent playing time. The
Jones-Bradley partnership in central
midfield looked overmatched too
often, a far cry from the Honduras
game, where the U.S. dominated
the midfield. Joness days for the
U.S. should be numbered, especially
with the breakout
of Dallass Kellyn
Acosta who can
play across the
midfield or
alongside Bradley
if Arena wants
to play two deep
midfielders.
Fullback remains
an issue for the
U.S. as well,
with Graham
Zusi having
to step into
an unnatural
position
at right
By Harry Jung
Orient Staff
For the sailing team, a high-
stakes weekend of races approaches.
Tomorrow, the team will compete
in the New England Team Race
Championships at Tufts University
and its performance at this regatta
will determine whether it heads to the
Team Racing National Championships
later this spring in Charleston, SC.
In order to qualify for nationals, the
team needs to place in the top four.
While part of the team fights to sail
in Nationals, the rest of the team will
compete in a home regatta, held at the
Coastal Studies Center in Harpswell.
The team has come back strong
after its spring break training trip,
beating Yale University, the four-time
defending champion, in the Graham
Hall Race at the United States Naval
Academy in Annapolis at the end
of March.
At a team race regatta, each team has
three boats competing. The teams score
is calculated by using the finishing
places of each of the teams three boats.
The teams race in one of two fleets:
gold, which consists of the higher-
performing teams, or silver. In order
to establish which fleet a team will
race in, all the teams race each other
at the beginning of the event. Then the
group is separated into the two fleets
and the gold fleet races each other
and the silver fleet races. Bowdoin
has qualified for the gold fleet at every
event this season.
Head Coach Frank Pizzo attributed
the teams strong start to its spring highest level.
friday, april 7, 2017
back due to injuries, leaving back
options rather thin.
Going into the next round of
qualifying in June, the USMNT look
revitalized under Bruce Arena, as
much as it may pain me to say it. I
wasnt completely sold on Bruce 2.0
at the helm, but hes won myand
many other supportersconfidence.
For the first time in a while, the U.S.
looked to have a definitive plan going
into a set of matches and took care
of business. With Pulisic continuing
his meteoric rise and the ageless
Dempsey still banging in goals,
theres much to be optimistic about
in the near future of the USMNT.
ALEX WESTFALL
break training at Eckerd College in
Florida.
We were able to get in lot of racing.
[The Graham Hall Race] was right after
our spring break trip so the team was
tuned up and ready to go, said Pizzo.
We did some training against [Yale]
in Florida so our team knows them a
bit. We then lost to some teams that we
should have won races against, but it
was really good for our first event after
the spring break.
Last weekend the team took fourth
place at MIT in a race of 16 teams.
Another contributing factor to the
teams success has been the strong
team chemistry. Many top sailors on
the team have been sailing together for
more than two years.
I think that experience really helps
of having tough losses and good wins.
A lot of team racing is being able to
communicate and being able to respond
to setbacks. So I think the experience
has been really valuable. Weve had
stability and experience, said Pizzo.
There are also highly motivated first
years and sophomores that keep the
senior sailors on their toes and push
them to stay on top of their game,
according to Pizzo.
Weve been getting better every
event and I think thats really
important, said Pizzo. Its easy to
plateau and get worse, but our results
have been getting better and the results
were at events where all the top teams
are there so thats pretty powerful.
We hope to carry the momentum
from spring, captain Dana Bloch
17 said. We want to compete at the
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friday, april 7, 2017 the bowdoin orient 13

The model minority myth Chalking up recent tampon incident

as solely one of bias is reductionist
For 22 years, Bowdoin has been celebrating Asian Heritage Week. This month, were
celebrating Asian Heritage Month, which has doubled the number of programs held at
Bowdoin. The month of May is nationally recognized as Asian/Pacific Heritage Month
and intends to celebrate the important histories and cultures of diverse Asian communi-
ties and Asian American individuals. class, national origin, religion, sex, sex- motivation is too complex to be ex-
This week, Helen Zia, a well-regarded activist and journalist, pointed out the urge to Ian Ward ual orientation, gender identity and/or plained by any single set of sociologi-
declare racial privilege through one of two lenses: black or white. ON SECOND expression, age, marital status, place of cal explanations. The reflex to chalk
During Zias talk, she brought up a memory from when she was in high school in THOUGHT birth, veteran status or against quali- any incident up to social bias leads to
the 60s. She was standing outside talking to two of her friendsone black and the other fied individuals with disabilities. Bias explanations that are both reduction-
white. At that momentthe crux of historical civil rights activismthey asked her what Last Friday, I attended a speed net- incidents, which are reported through ist and likely inaccurate.
it was going to be: So, Helen, are you black or are you white? working event hosted by the Bowdoin a designated online form, are handled Second, focusing exclusively on bias
Often, Asian and Asian American students are confronted with questions about their Career Planning Center. Clad in our not by the Judicial Board, like viola- too easily absolves those who spot the
place in racial power structures. Some ask, can I be a person of color if I am a model finest business-casual attire, 30 or so tions of the social code, but by a special bias from their culpability in creating
minority? Do I benefit from privilege that puts me outside of the category of oppressed of my peers and I schmoozed with suc- panel of students and faculty. (This fact a campus culture that leads individuals
minority? Can I be have white privilege despite historical subjugation at white hands? cessful Bowdoin alumni for a couple of in itself should raise some red flags for to think its acceptable to poop in trash-
Asian people can feel excluded from each group. hours, rehearsing our small-talk skills anyone concerned with collegiate due cans. While transphobia contributes to
These questions weigh more heavily on biracial people, as they can simultaneously and learning how to pitch ourselves to process protections). Since the hygiene this culture, so does leaving a mess at
benefit from white privilege and face oppression, while still having difficulty identifying potential employers. During the ses- products had been placed in the mens Super Snack, or leaving a pool of vomit
as white or Asian. sion, a number of alumni stood up to bathrooms to support transgender in a communal bathroom at a College
Asian students are often lumped into the category of white privilege beneficiaries as commend us undergraduates on our or gender nonconforming students, House. And although classism might
model minorities. Their supposedly model status acts as a reference to their socio- mingling skills. How polite and well- some argued that the pooping could play a role in these actions, so does
economic status. For example, Asians are often associated with high-paying industries mannered and genteel we had all been constitute discrimination, harassment a simple lack of manners. Vindicat-
such as engineering or finance, which creates the pervasive, false impression that Asians in our conversations, they told us. or intimidation of Bowdoins trans* ing oneself of transphobic sentiments
do not suffer from serious oppression. Eminently flattered, we returned to our and non-gender conforming stu- does not necessarily exonerate one of
Today, Asians are often not acknowledged as a historically marginalized group. How- schmoozing. dents. the blame for these other behaviors,
ever, the history of Asian oppression in the United States is significant. This includes The same day, the Orient report- Ultimately, BSG decided not to re- all of which realistically contribute to
the first racially based immigration ban, the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, harmful cari- ed that a student had defecated in a port this transgression as a bias inci- a campus climate saturated with mind-
catures in media like that in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, as Zia mentioned, and receptacle intended for used femi- dent for fear that admonishing any less vice and selfish disregard for basic
political discrimination in the form of Japanese incarceration during WWII, to name nine hygiene products, placed in sort of behavior would make this a rules of respect and etiquette.
just a few. Asians continue to face discrimination on a daily basis in the form of microag- a mens bathroom as part of BSGs divisive issue, and we dont want tam- The narrow focus on the role of bias
gressions, as illustrated in the widely seen photoshoot organized by ASA earlier this year. Free Flow project. The same ar- pons in the bathroom to be divisive, in campus culture, at the expense of
Our broader inability to recognize Asian identities is further complicated by the vast ticle reported that the fecesor, in as BSG representative Kate Berkeley more holistic moral considerations,
umbrella term of Asian. Frequently, East Asian identities dominate the conversation, non-journalese, a pile of shithad 18 put it. Instead, BSG has decided to helps to create the presently two-faced
leaving South Asian, Middle Eastern and biracial people feeling excluded or somehow been discovered by a member of the educate the community through a campus culture in which the same stu-
less Asian. housekeeping staff, who was tasked poster campaign. dent body can act perfectly angelic at a
Asian Heritage Month offers the opportunity to recognize the full breadth of Asian with cleaning it up. Yet the knee-jerk impulse to con- job interview but outright appalling in
cultures. It is also an opportunity for Asians and Asian Americans to discuss their expe- Beyond disgust, the appropriate re- strue the episode as an act of bias, private life. Clearly Bowdoin students
riences and celebrate their achievements. Everyone should engage with Asian Heritage action to these two events, considered even if quelled, is telling. Unlike BSG, are able to perform politeness, but, as
Month, be it through the Origami, Calligraphy and Tea event in the Craft Center, Panda together, is overwhelming cognitive the Orients editorial board took a this most recent incident proves, we
Bear Tales at MacMillan House or the Evening with G Yamazawa, a spoken-word artist. dissonance. How is it that the same more overt tact, writing in its March sometimes lack the fundamental com-
community can produce such radically 31 editorial that, the type of behavior mitment to decency, care and respect
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orients editorial board, divergent sets of behaviors, one defer- exhibited this past week is both dis- from which politeness is supposed
which is comprised of Julian Andrews, Harry DiPrinzio, Dakota Griffin, Jenny Ibsen ential nearly to a fault and the other respectful to the housekeeping staff to arise. When we fail to escape the
and Meg Robbins. brutish in the extreme? and a direct disregard for the rights of framework of bias, which absolves the
Upon first consideration, the ques- trans* students on campus. It is an act accuser from the sins of the accused,
tion might appear naive. Certainly of bias and it deserves a prompt ad- we foreclose any opportunity for
those attending Career Planning Cen- ministrative response. meaningful reflection on how our own
ter events are not those pooping in When judging disrespectful and actions, which might not tidily fall
tampon receptacles, you will object. abhorrent behavior on campus, we under the umbrella of bias, contribute
Or rather, college students will be col- certainly must consider the role that to those ills. In such a climate, we are
lege studentsthere will be a degree of bias and the unequal distribution of concerned only with seeming virtuous,
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committed to serving as an open forum for thoughtful and diverse discussion and the bathroom incident, the beyond our course se-
debate on issues of interest to the College community.
campus community jus- lection process, and
tifiably responded with yes, even into
Julian Andrews Meg Robbins a mix of disgust and the bathroom.
Editor in Chief Editor in Chief righteous indigna-
tion. Yet the reflex-
ive reaction to this
Layout Editor Managing Editor News Editor incident betrays
Emma Bezilla Sarah Bonanno Jessica Piper a pervasive ap-
Ian Stewart Harry DiPrinzio proach to campus
Joe Seibert Sports Editor discourse that is
Sr. Photo Editor Emily Weyrauch Anjulee Bhalla worth examining.
Eliza Graumlich Features Editor At its Wednes-
Associate Editor
Amanda Newman day night meet-
Photo Editor Olivia Atwood ing, BSG debated
Jenny Ibsen Ellice Lueders
Eli Lustbader A&E Editor whether to report
Hannah Rafkin Surya Milner this episode as
Ezra Sunshine Calder McHugh
a bias incident.
Copy Editor Opinion Editor As opposed to
Web Editor Marina Affo Julia ORourke a standard vio-
James Little Dakota Griffin lation of the
Lucia Ryan Page 2 Editor
social code, a
Data Desk Liza Tarbell Gwen Davidson bias incident
Lexi Gray Calendar Editor is a trans-
Gideon Moore Sr. News Reporter
Rohini Kurup gression that
James Callahan
Business Manager Steff Chavez
constitutes
Maggie Coster Social Media Editor or is moti-
Cameron de Wet
Vivien Lee Jono Gruber vated by Dis-
crimination or
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14 opinion
Insidious threat of climate change demands urgent attention
By Ben Bristol
Op-Ed Contributor
By now, sentences like Our planet
and human civilization teeters pre-
cariously on the edge of an unfath-
omable ecological abyss are banal
and, at worst, elicit an ironic smile. We
have good reason to believe that climate
change might destroy the foundations
of our political and economic systems
in a matter of decades, but for some
reason it doesnt feel urgent. The threat
of climate change is one of those things
we are aware of and talk about freely
but dont really understand. Its all over
classrooms but a safe distance from
most of our lives.
Climate change is a much more in-
sidious threat than any kind of enemy
or opponent weve encountered before,
partly because it doesnt work to think
of it as an enemy or oppo-
nent. It is an abstract,
slow, diffuse dan-
ger that is hard
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BROOKE GODDARD
Learning to appreciate Bowdoin nightlife: a retrospective account
Savannah Horton
BACKGROUND
NOISE
Spring is a season of rebirth, re-
flection and, apparently, snow. This
spring, I have decided to swap home-
work for Recommended Videos on
YouTube (Why These Brothers Killed
Their Parents, 20,000 Calorie Chal-
lenge). This is called Choosing Hap-
piness. I have also decided to reflect on
and evaluate my experiences in honor
of my final Bowdoin homecoming.
As a senior, I have a rare mass of
uselessly specific knowledge. Bow-
doin knowledge. After graduation,
Ill know nothing. Ill be paying for
a dirty apartment above some fail-
ing caf. What better way to share
my temporary expertise and maturity
than through a retrospective on cam-
pus nightlife? Dont answer that ques-
tion. Whether you like it or not, the
following is a remarkably accurate,
definitely universal guide to going out
at Bowdoin. As a columnist, I should
be trusted entirely.
Freshman: First years at Bowdoin
are particularly eager to go out, and I
was no exception. Though it took two
months for me to find a factually de-
fined party (a social gathering of in-
vited guests typically with drinks and
entertainment), I enjoyed the limbo
of standing in rooms and waiting to
taste beer. Unfortunately, my first for-
bidden libation proved surprisingly
underwhelming. Quick tip: if youre
looking to have a good time, dont
judge your peers too quickly! For
example, my roommate marked taxi-
dermy as an interest on her housing
the typical problem-solving weapons.
America, good at repelling external
threats in many ways, has never been
good at addressing threats from within
or processing its own internal contra-
dictions. Climate change, which has the
appearance of an enemy from abroad
violently storms onto our shores, is an
internal threata product of, and a cat-
alyst for, ongoing violence to ourselves.
The name we give the problem is
somewhat deceiving. Were not really
threatened by the climate or carbon; the
enemy is a way of thinkinga set of
powerful ideaswhich we cannot sepa-
rate from the institutions and rituals
that distribute them.
At its core, it is an economic and so-
cial problem with deeper, sturdier roots
than a few shoddy regulations and en-
ergy policies. It is the latest expression
of an old disease that has already killed
countless people, handicapped whole
populations and condemned even more
to lives of meaningless struggle. It is the
outcome of fatal kinks in our guiding
institutions and their ideas,
marketed everywhere
application and we got along just fine.
We even have a few pictures together
(with her fox skin).
Notable skills: pretending to remem-
ber names, crying in basements, eat-
ing pizza.
Late Night Google Searches: How
to make crop top; is breaking the seal
dangerous?; watch Goofy Movie on-
line free.
Sophomore: Social excursions ga-
lore! College Houses are truly the living
rooms of campus. One time in MacMil-
lan House, a plate of ravioli remained
on our dining room table
for two months. Party
highlights included
drawing Xs on
hands and point-
ing out other peo-
ples vomit. My big
sophomore tip for
nightlife is to join a
club or organization
(apparently these are
distinct categories). This
way, you will have a group of
people who are forced to hang
out with you. Together, you will
enjoy meals, pregames and casual
Bowdoin hellos.
Notable skills: rallying, breaking
phones, eating pizza.
Late Night Google Searches: how to
open wine without wine opener?; how to
open beer without beer opener?
Junior: As you all know, studying
abroad is a life changing adventure. Per-
sonally, I discovered the thrills of bank-
ruptcy. Bankruptcy is unexpected and
sadlike when you tell someone youre
going on a diet and they say, Good for
you instead of, Why? I suggest you
skip club cover charges and throw a do-
mestic celebration with cheese and Tesco
the bowdoin orient
from governments to churches. I
try to avoid empty-sounding claims
that demonize capitalism, but there
is no doubt that our economic
system and the culture it enlists
have allowed for, if not encour-
aged, incalculable damages and
desecrated modern life. No
economic system is evil, but
some are especially dan-
gerous in the hands of the
morally corruptand some
of them might even encour-
age corruption.
Only now are some of the
wealthiest, most privileged
among us realizing that our com-
fort and prosperity rest upon inse-
curity, hopelessness and an incom-
prehensible suffering. But for most,
addressing the climate crisis means
doing only what we need to preserve
our prosperity and comfort (let us eat
cake and have it too). Our administra-
tion, board, students and the Ameri-
can left (including Hillary Clinton) all
espouse this sort of environmental-
ism, which amounts to support for
government policies that seek merely
to alleviate the symptoms of the crisis.
This hollow approach, which does not
confront the extreme inequalities that
have defined and destabilized our so-
ciety, might represent someone elses
deliberate attempts to preserve the in-
equalities they benefit from. Climate
change emerges out of system that
has effectively enslaved the poor and
it promises to punish the poor most
severely.
Im not just a student trashing the
wine. Just post a bunch of pictures from
one bar with different filters and follow-
ers will assume youve globetrotted.
Notable skills: complaining about
parties at parties, eating pizza.
Late Night Google Searches: easy
ways to make money online, legal; san-
gria recipe; Lorrie Moore stories.
Senior: The moment Ive been waiting
for: an elevator away from Super Snack.
This year, I spend nights out ponder-
ing the Big Questions: how do I open
a Roth IRA? What do noses
smell like? I drink craft
beer without irony
system. Im
questioning my leaders, whose
intentions and behavior have often
contradicted their valueswho, often
in the name of justice or the common
good, have reinforced conditions that
extract and exploit. Even if its not the
mark of a good leader, its certainly
the task of liberal arts students to
question the systems we operate in
and our own assumptions about it.
Regardless of what the Bowdoin com-
munity should do to address the prob-
lems that attend climate change, it has
a deep obligation to recognize them
for what they are. It may not be the
role of an academic institution to be
politically active, but when ideology
constricts intellectual engagement, a
free and fearless search for truth must
because it just tastes better! Senior year
presents ample opportunities for classy
socializing. I suggest you talk to as many
people as possible. One day, you might
be unemployed and someone you met
at a party will own Connecticuts largest
law firm and maybe will remember how
you helped her scrub vomit out of her
shower curtain and thus will give you a
job. Maybe you will meet someone like
that. Or maybe you will just meet some-
one who makes you feel less alone.
Notable skills: reminiscing,
wine-induced story writing,
PHOEBE ZIPPER
friday, april 7, 2017
be political.
I think I speak
for others when I say that Im
angry at dishonest leaders, whose
dishonesty with themselves has hurt
others; at every establishment poli-
tician who thought that the liberal
course of the last eight years would
be good enough for America (or that
Hillary Clinton was good enough);
at my parents generation, generally,
for denying me the sacred opportu-
nity to be a parent; and at the nause-
ating pretenses of my own generation
(which I share), whose irony betrays
sincere complacency.
I wear the divestment movements or-
ange square not because I support their
tactics, but because it reminds me of the
fearlessness of a group that puts ideas
into action; and it gives me courage.
eating pizza.
Late Night Google Searches: What
is starting salary, entry-level?; how to
make snack, no stove?; full-time YouTu-
bers salary?
I have seven more weeks of Bowdoin.
Some cases of mono last longer than that.
Ive learned to appreciate our social scene
and I hope you will too. Because soon it
will be gone. Soon it will be graduation
and the grass will be furiously green
from secret chemicals and our OneCards
wont work anymore. And Dominos
wont offer you the student two-for-one
deal. And that will be
a very sad day.
friday, april 7, 2017
The state of the union remains strong through Trumps first months
SONS OF
LIBERTY
Francisco Navarro and Ezra Rice
Awash with tears, forgotten
homework and calls home, David
Saul Smith Union stood aghast as
Wolf Blitzer announced the 45th
president. Laden with shame and
frustration, conversations covered
evacuation to Canada, the handling
of Donald Trump-supporting Face-
book friends and pleas to follow the
popular votein disregard of the
Constitution. Students forsook their
country, its citizens and all hope for
the future.
Much of Bowdoin, along with
the national media, characterized
the election as an ultimate threat to
American democracy. They overlook
the Civil War, world wars, Great De-
pression, presidents assassinations,
struggles for civil rights and multi-
tudes of other contested elections.
Incredibly, after each difficult, trag-
ic, discouraging affair, we emerged
stronger. Seventy-eight days into
the new administration, Bowdoin
must reflect on if and how our fears
were warranted.
To acknowledge the obvious:
Trumps volatile rhetoric and char-
acter foster confusion and conflict.
His policies challenge the postwar
international order, customs and in-
stitutions. Millions of Americans,
particularly those from marginal-
ized backgrounds, feel threatened by
his proposals. His actions towards
allies and on climate change appear
shortsighted. Despite any drawbacks
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of the administration, the potential
of America and the resilience of our
people remain unfazed. Our strengths
still outweigh our shortcomings and
we remain well positioned to tackle
the troubles of tomorrow.
The economy, the chief priority of
Americans, is gaining momentum.
At 4.7 percent, the unemployment
rate falls well below our 70-year av-
erage of 5.81 percent. Consumer
confidence rides a 15-year high,
manufacturers optimism sustains
a record high, and new home
sales double the 2013 num-
bers. The S&P 500 has added
$2 trillion of value since the
election, and the Federal
Reserve, weighing these
and other indicators,
pledged to raise
interest rates three
times in 2017. As
Chairwoman of
the Fed Janet Yel-
len explains, The
simple message is,
the economy is doing
well.
Internationally, our
troubles pale in compari-
son to other leading na-
tions. Corruption, a falling
Yuan, capital flight and grow-
ing housing and debt bubbles
constrain China to the low-
est growth in a quarter century.
Japan, in its third lost decade,
faces a dwindling population, mon-
etary stimulus dependency and the
highest level of debt in the world.
International sanctions, low energy
prices and the longest recession in
decades weaken Russia and fuel an-
ti-Putin protests. The refugee crisis,
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France and Germany. Brazil, in its
worst recession ever, impeached its
president, and 303 of 513 congress-
men and 49 of 81 senators remain
under investigation for corruption.
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instability, the United States remains
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Under Trump, political interest,
engagement and involvement have
reached new heights. Though par-
tisanship runs rampant, citizens are
exceedingly willing and empowered
to sacrifice their time and energy
for their beliefs. With the executive
branch hampered by courts and low
public approval ratings, and with
Congress locked in bitter party con-
flict, the potential of individual, local
and state activism and engagement
has never been greater.
Many of Trumps
BROOKE GODDARD
is the ultimate threat to America,
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opinion 15
most controversial and feared cam-
paign promises have failed to mate-
rialize, been blocked or lessened. The
Affordable Care Act held, the Muslim
ban remains blocked and the media,
far from muzzled, is empowered. On
campus, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agents have yet to storm
the Quad and our daily lives continue
with little alteration.
Whether one sees Trump as a
demagogue or hero, our system
has so far overcome any per-
ceived threat. The separa-
tion of powers prevents
individuals from uni-
laterally altering the
character of the na-
tion. We do not wish
to criticize or praise
President Trump,
but to review the
current state of
affairs and show
that America
remains
strong. We
cannot claim
Trump rep-
resents Ameri-
can demise if we
are not declining. It
is too early to credit
Trump with Americas
current strength and
eminence. But we can be
sure he has not prevented it. If Trump
the nations survival is the ultimate
testament to America. Though mil-
lions of Americans remain worried
for the future, we can be reassured
by the power of our American sys-
tem and be certain that the state of
our union remains strong.
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FRIDAY 7
LECTURE
Uncommon Hour
Assistant Professor of Sociology Theo Greene will discuss his
research on LGBTQ youth, their involvement with gay neigh-
borhoods and how they create spaces for themselves.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 12:30 p.m.

EVENT
In Search of a Desi Drag Queen
Kareem Khubchandani, Mellon assistant professor of theater
and dance at Tufts University, will discuss the restrictions of
South Asian drag performances and the way people examine
cultural practices.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 4:15 p.m.

PERFORMANCE
Pihcintu Multicultural Chorus ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
The Portland-based choir, comprised of immigrant and refu-
PASSION FOR FASHION: Mohamed Nur 19 shows off his Somali clothing in the Pan-Africa Fashion Show on Saturday. The event celebrated the diverse
gee children who resettled in Maine, will perform. cultures of the African continent and included a fashion show and student performances.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 4:30 p.m.

EVENT
Spring Student Night at the Museum
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art will host students for
a night of a cappella performance by the
Longfellows, hors d'ourvres and more.
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After Brexit? What Now for the United Intellectual Fearlessness: Science
Kingdom and the European Union in Politics
There will be a lecture on the effects of Brexit on the United In a panel discussion, faculty members will discuss the inter-
Kingdom and the European Union. sections of science and politics.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m. Quinby House. 7 p.m.

SATURDAY 8 FILM SCREENING

Screening of 13th
CONCERT There will be a screening of the documentary, which explores
the history of racial inequality in the criminal justice system.
George Lopez Concert Performance
TUESDAY 11
The screening will be followed by small group discussions.
Beckwith Artist-in-Residence George Lopez will perform the
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 7:00 p.m.
fourth volume of Bachs Clavier-bung.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.
LECTURE
Twenty-First Century Torture:
Explaining Enhanced Interrogation

THURSDAY 13
William dAmbruoso, visiting assistant professor of political

SUNDAY 9
LECTURE
TEDxBowdoinCollege Common Ends
Seven speakers, including three students, will deliver lectures
on the theme common ends. Tickets
are free and available at Smith Union.
science at Bates College, will discuss the potential uses of
torture during the Trump presidency and beyond.
Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 4 p.m.
DISCUSSION
EVENT How Did We Get Here? Historians on
Origami, Calligraphy and Tea Trump
The Asian Students Association will host an event for students Professors from the history department will discuss how his-
ORIENT to make origami and practice calligraphy as part of Asian tory informs current debate on gender,
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The Politics of
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Contemporary Russia